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Aargh!  Research!  How long to cook a whole, adult boar on a spit  to some kind of toothsomeness?  Answer: twelve to sixteen hours.  Good.  That's just what Count Lundersot's adventure needs.

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And I am stingy with connections.  They can pile other people's clutter on my home page.

The key is the definition of 'publish'.  Submiting a work to a closed community for critique should not fall under the definition.

Not published.  Workshopped.

And when you 'publish' the parts of the work to make it visibe, you must NOT publish 'to the whole web',  or you'll be exposing it ro non-members, which would make it available to anyone, without restriction (i.e. freely).

Of course there are hard parts too ...

You could also make the ground they're standing on into the page of a book, perhaps overlaid with a translucent background.  (Use the text from some non-spoiling part of your book 1, so you don't run into copyright issues.

Here's the last suggestion.  (Of course, the thing is becoming more and more a cut-up mess.)

Use your original open font and put 'Master' over Tommy's lower legs.

Doesn't sound like quite the right thing, since my sorcery is a means to the story, not the story proper.

I've spent a couple of hours fooling around with GIMP.  I'm no expert (and it should have a non-linear perspective transform, but does not).

Now, as to why I did this and that.  Part of my rationale comes from what I see on covercritics.com.

I've made Tommy bigger.  I've put an open-book icon on his back (grabbed off the web-your artist will have to make his own).  No, it's not something in the story, but it's an indication to the reader of Tommy's special powers.

I've tried to move Tommy closer to the reader, and to move the danger closer to him.  I've done a very clumsy two-stage perspective wrap.  I've given him a little more room, and moved him a little off center so that he's looking through the center in his confrontation with the danger.  You could move him a bit further to the left.

I would also have Tommy looking straight out at the danger, not down.

The extra arm is a failure of my editing ... but I don't want to spend another two hours on fixing it.  You can see the idea.

HopeThisHelps.

Slow Joe Biden, Obama's way of insuring that nobody on the political right would consider attempting an assasination.

Janet, I tried to answer your review comments.  The result is about 50% larger and maybe a little better.  Maybe also more ... lurid.  If you want a repub, I'll do it.  Anyone else, care to take up the job after Janet?