Will iconic images recorded in the grooves of an ancient vase unite the Holy Land or rip it further apart?

THE VASE

A novel by Mark M. DeRobertis

Muhsin Muhabi is a Palestinian potter, descended from a long line of potters. His business is run from the same shop owned by his ancestors since the day his forebears moved to Nazareth. The region's conflict saw the death of his oldest son, and rogue terrorists are in the process of recruiting his youngest in their plot to assassinate the Pope and Israeli prime minister.

Professor Hiram Weiss is an art historian at Nazareth’s Bethel University. He is also a Shin Bet operative on special assignment. With the help of fellow agent, Captain Benny Mathias, he plans to destroy the gang responsible for the death of his wife and only child. He puts a bomb in the ancient vase he takes on loan from Muhsin’s Pottery Shop.

Mary Levin, the charming assistant to the director of Shin Bet, has lost a husband and most of her extended family to recurring wars and never-ending terrorism. She dedicates her life to the preservation of Israel, but to whom will she dedicate her heart? The brilliant professor from Bethel University? Or the gallant captain who now leads Kidon?

Harvey Holmes, the Sherlock of Haunted Houses, is a Hollywood TV host whose reality show just flopped. When a Lebanese restaurant owner requests his ghost-hunting services, he believes the opportunity will resurrect his career. All he has to do is exorcise the ghosts that are haunting the restaurant. It happens to be located right across the street from Muhsin’s Pottery Shop.




Wednesday, January 25, 2012

300 PPI

300 PPI. I'm not even sure what those letters stand for. Something about pixels, I guess. And that's how book covers are supposed to measure up. So the day I put in KOK's cover with a link to the publisher, I find out that it's not 300 PPI. The only thing that might save it is that I did shrink it down. But here's the confusing part. The template that they sent me indicated the cover must be 6.125 inches by 9.25 inches. So I used the virtual ruler on the computer program and made it to that exact measurement. But I shrunk it down to that measurement instead of cropping it. So maybe that is what happened. We'll see how it turns out. But that cover to the right of this post may not be the final one. It's no disaster, because if it doesn't measure up, the art department at Melange said they will come up with something similar. So at least they know what kind of cover design I want and I won't get a topless male model on there.
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