Whew. After over a week of work, a pile of tinkering and experimentation, at least a dozen new digital-art techniques mastered, and a lot of frustrated beard-tugging . . . I’ve finally put together cover art for The Curse of Steel.

My self-imposed deadline was the end of the month, and it’s now about two hours away from local midnight on 31 July, so I’m barely under the wire. Even so, I’m very happy with the results.

Now to finish revising the draft and get the book ready for release. It’s starting to look like a mid-September release is going to work.