The cover of the book started life on a school exercise book, the first few pages of which actually contained notes on Mechanical Metallurgy. It just happend to be the only thing at hand when I decided to start writing the story.
The original draft of the book filled three such exercise books. I later hand copied the whole lot into a hard backed notebook.
When it finally got typed I bound it and used lettraset to put a fancy title on the cover. It was starting to take shape.
The first real cover was done by the publishers. I suppose it wasn't bad except for the fact that it had a submarine in it. This was unfortunate as the actual story was about as far from a submarine as you could get.
I decided to have a go myself, but I gave up fairly quickly.
There were 2 other preliminary covers but for one reason or another they never made it. Unfortunately, I can't show them. Finally Marcos Huerta Carpizo came to the rescue with this image. When I saw it I knew it was the one.
If you want to see more of Marcos' work, then visit his webpage at www.mictlantech.com
The publishers took it and played around with and came up with the final cover
