Haha, thanks guys. It's our 6th cover to date. Been a long time my involvement with SC, over 15 years actually, but each cover has been a pretty special occurrence. Definitely keeps you motivated. Now if I can stay motivated on my next book. Grrr, I'm getting there but either my life was less busy when I did the first (it was) or, this one is just that much harder. 75% of the writing is done at least. Yay!
For getting on the cover -iIt helps when you client has a professional photographer shoot his vehicles (we're doing Timo's collateral right now). That's really what Tom is looking for when considering cover art. Timo's is super-stoked to be on the cover, too. Great people. We run all their marketing and advertising, and its been so much fun working with them.
Thanks for the shout-out guys.