CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

The stand-alone edition of the novelette, Jalaya , released on January 7, 2024, and is now available for purchase. It can be found individually at any of the platforms on this Books2Read link , and it can be found as one of the stories in: A Collection of Battle and its Aftermath. For those of you wondering what it's all about. Well... The Short Version: It's about family, duty, love and war, and the perils of past secrets. The Longer Version: It's about: A yearly tradition. A dance not forgotten. A planet torn by a long-running war. Hunted by an implacable foe, and driven into the ruins of a town he once called home, Mark Leader, Michael, must try to save his people against savage odds. And try, too, to save the woman he loves. Will the secrets of their past save or doom their future? How It Begins: Michael looked down at the town in the sand. Red, flat roofs of clay interspersed by the elegant, wooden gables of buildings from northern climes, still stood in ...

So, Saturday I sat down and sourced a bunch of pictures for some new covers - and I decided I would complete an idea I'd had for Jalaya about six months ago. It's not a big change, but I think it's a better cover for this novella-length piece of science fiction. Here is is: New e-book cover for Jalaya The cover went through a few iterations, but I'll probably stick with this one. Here's what it looks like for the print-on-demand versions. New print-on-demand cover for Jalaya New print-on-demand cover for large-print version of Jalaya For those of you who are curious, here are the covers that went before - including a variation on the one above that I chose not to go with. From left to right you can see the oldest to newest versions of this cover 1st Jalaya cover 3rd Jalaya cover 2nd Jalaya cover