I can has cover!

This is my first novel. Heart Sense is my baby, the product of living with a world in my head roughly since I was nine years old. Where most other kids made up stories about their action figures and their my little ponies and their GI Joes blowing up Barbie and helping take down the Empire, I made up stories about the people in my head. So Katjin and Mikael and Soren and the whole cast are very dear to me. The world means a lot to me, especially since it's kind of evolved over time. At this point, it looks a lot like the sub-alpine rainforest of New Zealand, combined with the steppes of Mongolia, and maybe some random mountains thrown in for good measure.

So, novel. I have a cover! Well, I have a form to fill out to decide what I'd like on the cover (suggestions, etc.). What the hell do you put on a cover? How do you condense the whole of your novel into one image? What do you think is the most important visual aspect of your story? My brain 'sploded, and all I could think was, I can has cover? (That, and, I was the turkey all along.)

So, someday, I will have a cover. With means I'll also have a cover blurb. And maybe an author quote. And an actual book. It's amazing how real this feels, now that I have a cover. I'm going to have a book. And a book is so much cooler than my Obi-Wan lightsaber.

Which reminds me, someday I'll tell the feverish tale of how I acquired the lightsaber. For now, I'm just going to drown in the thoughts of the fact that I, K L Richardsson, am an author. With a cover. And a book. And no, I will not squee like a little girl. I swear.