Legend of Draconite Cover Art: Moonstone

This is the fourth installment of the Legend of Draconite cover art series!

Moonstone

Moonstone almost ceased to exist while I was writing it. I was more than halfway through the manuscript when Openoffice unexpectedly closed; I don't remember if it was a computer crash or the program crashed. When I re-opened Openoffice, the program asked if I wanted to recover Moonstone. I told it "no." One of the biggest mistakes of my life. The file was corrupt, and I had no backups.

Fortunately I found a program that allowed me to recover raw text from a corrupt file, and from that point onward I made backups of my manuscripts, and sometimes backups of the backups. I've lost count of how many backup files I've made for my manuscripts, among other files. Moral of the story? MAKE BACKUP FILES, and LET THE PROGRAM RECOVER DOCUMENTS!

Anyway, the cover art. I'm revealing a thumbnail version of what will be the latest revision of it, and will post a larger version of it at a later time. I'm so excited to share my work with my readers!

The first edition cover art of Moonstone features Aero flying through a rainy sky. I took the photo in the background in the Timpanogos mountains. The theme picture is the earring worn by Ramirran royalty.

The second edition features Draque sitting in a stream. I think I took the BG photo in the Stansbury mountains here in Utah. I did a switcharoo between this cover and Book 5 in the newer editions, putting Aero on the cover of B4 and Draque on B5, then vice versa in the newer editions.

The newest edition again features Draque. I studied the armor from the 2nd edition and tried to replicate it. His Gift is clearly visible, and in the BG I created a simple illustration of silhouetted mountains.

With these new covers I've added a logo with a Draconite helm with embellishments on either side. I created this design while first drafting The Legend of Draconite. It's no one's helm in particular, just represents the Draconites.

The back cover piece for the first edition features Elec-Marith, the fairy city in Zanoll

Thanks for joining me again, and look forward to the final edition of the Legend of Draconite cover art series!