My novel, Nothing Serious, is a tip of the hat to those movies. It's a ridiculous situation--a young woman lives her life through the internet (that's not so unbelievable!) and one day after being the victim of identity theft, Paige rips the connections out of the wall and leaves the city for a rural town. They're nuttier than she is. She's almost thrown in Zoning Board Jail for painting her store, Nothing Serious, colors that are too bright.
Avalon probably would have bought it but it was just when I was getting into indie publishing and I wanted to do it myself. It's had a couple of titles and several different covers. I like this one. The argument would be "This illustration is from 1920!" Yes, it is. And there's a party in the book where everyone dresses up in Jazz Age style. So maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. Maybe Montlake will publish it and give it a different cover. Otherwise in 6 months or a year, I'll give it a new cover!
For anyone interested in the process, I tried to content aware fill out the young man standing underneath her. I can't make that function work in Photoshop so I clone stamp tooled him out, then eventually also removed the background/hills. In Adobe Bridge Camera Raw, I improved the colors, employed clarity, brighten, saturation, sharpen, bumped the black.
In Photoshop I added a luminance because the image is deteriorating with age and I wanted to soften or smooth it out a little. I used the dodge tool to lighten up some sections. The title is a font called Gatsby and my name is in Minion Pro.
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