{"id":636,"date":"2011-04-13T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=636"},"modified":"2011-04-13T07:12:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T12:12:27","slug":"new-cover-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":"New Cover Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who have been following my posts, you know that a couple of weeks ago, my publisher and I decided to tweak the cover art for <em>The Immortality Virus<\/em>. This came after we received some negative feedback, especially about the size of the breasts on the second character. I agreed with the sentiment, but not being a visual artist, had kind of left most of the details to the artist, who I thought generally captured the scene (straight from the book) fairly well. Well, the new version is in, and I am much happier with it. Not only is that second character a bit more reasonably proportioned, but the way she&#8217;s falling looks more believable, and I like the look on her face better. I also like the lighting in the new version, particularly how the phasor casts a blue glow, brightening the scene. So, here it is:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Virus-Rework2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-637\" title=\"Virus Rework\" src=\"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Virus-Rework2-662x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Virus-Rework2-662x1024.jpg 662w, https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Virus-Rework2-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Virus-Rework2.jpg 825w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, for the sake of comparison, here is the old cover art, also the cover art on the ARCs:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ImmortalityVirus0228111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-640\" title=\"ImmortalityVirus022811\" src=\"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ImmortalityVirus0228111.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ImmortalityVirus0228111.jpg 550w, https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ImmortalityVirus0228111-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who have been following my posts, you know that a couple of weeks ago, my publisher and I decided to tweak the cover art for The Immortality Virus. This came after we received some negative feedback, especially about the size of the breasts on the second character. I agreed with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-writing","category-the-immortality-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}