This week I'm running a facebook ad for my novel Blue Dragon Mississippi. Coming up with the right art for this ad proved quite challenging. Above is the final image that I went with. Below are a few of the runners up. Each one was created with stable diffusion.
In terms of art, this one was probably my favorite. I love how simple and iconic it is. But it seemed to work better as a random post than as an ad to inspire strangers to buy my book.
Considering that my audience is 62% male, I did this one in an attempt to make something sexy. I tried a couple versions with various bits of text. This is the best I could come up with, and it still didn't end up feeling like an ad I wanted to run.
This last image has more of a fantasy feel. It's elegant and well-composed. I made about a hundred fantasy dragons and this was the best of them. Even so, this art feels a little mediocre to me. It's nice to look at, but too easy to ignore.
I may not post much here for the next few days. My favorite person is coming to visit so there's a good chance I'll be otherwise occupied. Even so, I'll try to get at least one new book chapter posted this weekend. I feel like the last one kind of left readers hanging.
Read my novels:
- Small Gods of Time Travel is available as a web book on IPFS.
- The Paradise Anomaly is available in print via Blurb and for Kindle on Amazon.
- Psychic Avalanche is available in print via Blurb and for Kindle on Amazon.
- One Man Embassy is available in print via Blurb and for Kindle on Amazon.
- Flying Saucer Shenanigans is available in print via Blurb and for Kindle on Amazon.
- Rainbow Lullaby is available in print via Blurb and for Kindle on Amazon.
- The Ostermann Method is available in print via Blurb and for Kindle on Amazon.
- Blue Dragon Mississippi is available in print via Blurb and for Kindle on Amazon.
See my NFTs:
- Small Gods of Time Travel is a 41 piece Tezos NFT collection on Objkt that goes with my book by the same name.
- History and the Machine is a 20 piece Tezos NFT collection on Objkt based on my series of oil paintings of interesting people from history.
- Artifacts of Mind Control is a 15 piece Tezos NFT collection on Objkt based on declassified CIA documents from the MKULTRA program.