I was shocked to discover that the cover I built for “Minimum Safe Distance” makes it all too easy to think this book is “space warfare”, “military sci fi”, or “space opera”. I learned this at a “science fiction literary convention”. :(
As an autistic, I very matter-of-factly envisioned a cover that showed the crucial turning point, the point where everything changed and after which the stakes cascaded across Earth. I personally did not imbue this cover with notions of military sci fi. Quite the opposite. Because the subjects of the artwork (commissioned from artist Casey Weeks, cover integration/layout by Ukrainian studio MiblArt.com) were neither humans nor spacecraft nor ‘typical aliens’, to me this cover should’ve led the reader into a state of wonder. To wonder what exactly is going on, and why. Not to assume.
I was naive. I was autistic.
MSD is “meaty”, not “fluffy”, that’s for sure. Hell, the U.S. is a self-destructed nation in MSD. (Is that really surprising now?)
To learn much more about “Minimum Safe Distance”, visit its page and especially read Andrew G. Gibson’s review!
https://XHoYenAuthor.com/msd
Video graphics credits:
Royalty-free, commercial-use graphics and sounds by:
Ulia Koltyrina (the spacesuit, via AdobeStock)
Apollo astronauts (lunar photos, via Wikimedia Commons)
Pixabay (glass ting sound)
MeinVideostudio (star wink effect, via Pixabay.com)
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