My latest novel, Headshots, is very close to being finished  and ready for publishing. Consequently I have started some other activities, including creating the cover. I’m going to put in three renditions of the cover, beginning with the second one I did up till where it stands now.

When I say it’s close to being finished, here’s what I mean:

• I’ve read the completed novel twice, once out loud.
• My wife joined me in that reading out loud, becoming my beta reader.
• The readings revealed a number of plot lapses, changes in plot, redundancies, and of course typos to fix. All of those have been noted and typed.

So now I need to give it one more reading for typos and smoothness of flow and plot. I’d like to get one or two more beta readers. Last novel, however, the beta reading process didn’t go so well, and so I’m hesitant to put out a wide call for beta readers. I’ll probably ask two or three people, and hope at least one, preferably two, will be willing to read it in a timely manner.

And, here’s the latest version of the cover. I think it’s close to being done as well.