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The Grave Winner Complete Trilogy #CoverReveal #99cents #KU
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“Delicious suspense.” ★★★★★
“Brilliant–I held my breath the whole way through.” ★★★★★
The Grave Winner Trilogy has been repackaged with a brand new cover, and now the whole heart pounding story can be yours for only 99 cents for a very limited time!
Prepare to pet the cover!!!
Only 99 cents or FREE on Kindle Unlimited!
The Grave Winner Trilogy #coverreveal #petthecover
Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything on the ol’ blog. (I’m so sorry, blog. I still love you.) Hopefully this post will more than make up for that!
I’m gearing up to re-release The Grave Winner books one and two (book three is on the way!), so naturally I need brand new covers to do that. You remember the amazing covers I had before? These new ones needed to be even better, which is a tall order for a potential cover designer. I put my complete trust in Rebecca Hamilton, USA Today bestselling author, editor, and, you guessed it, cover designer.
And OMG, look what she did!
I can’t stop drooling over them!
Books 1 and 2 will hopefully be ready for re-release in the fall, and if I cross my fingers, toes, and eyes, book 3 should be ready by the winter!
Would you like to add them to Goodreads? Here you go:
#petthecover: January Black by @wendysrusso
Sixteen-year-old genius Matty Ducayn is the son of The Hill’s commandant. As such, he’s expected to conform to a strict, unspoken code of conduct. Small acts of defiance over years—such as walking on the grass—have earned him a reputation for being unruly. When sarcastic test answers finally get Matty expelled from school, King Hadrian offers him a diploma if he can answer a deceptively simple question, and then dismisses the only answer.
To prove his worth to society, Matty wrestles with the king’s word games, the kingdom’s historical record, and laws that don’t make sense. He meets Iris Locke, a street smart gardener, along the way. After enchanting him at a glance, Iris helps his research, keeps him out of trouble, and finally breaks his heart.
Alone again, Matty finds himself on collision course with a deadly law, one he will have to break to answer the king’s question. Was Hadrian challenging him, or teaching him a lesson? Without Iris, it won’t matter, because Matty won’t stand down for anyone else.
January Black is the 2013 Readers’ Favorite Silver Medal winner for YA-Coming of Age.
January Black will be available for pre-order on Amazon 11/28/2014.
About the Illustrator
Liliana Sanches started studying Visual Arts at the age of 16 and soon felt attracted to the Romantic artwork from the 19th century. The Pre-Raphaelites and Friedrich were her biggest inspirations at the time, and she felt compelled to explore this graphic language of desolated landscapes that were the reflection of the painter’s emotions.
After graduating college, specializing Graphic Design, she created her own business under the name of “Princess of Shadows.” Her style had now evolved and had technical knowledge to support it. Intricate concepts with a much better grasp of image composition and visual balance, and also used color and shape psychology to imprint her work on the viewer.
Along the years she has been working with musicians, authors and even other designers who have allowed her to express her creativity, develop visual communication skills and explore different graphic styles to better suit each project.
Nowadays, here personal work has been exploring the human psyche, imbuing it with a dark surreal feeling. Her biggest inspirations are J-Horror movies, dreams/ nightmares and mental health pathologies.
About the Author
Wendy S. Russo got her start writing in the sixth grade. That story involved a talisman with crystals that had to be found and assembled before bad things happened, and dialog that read like classroom roll call. Since then, she’s majored in journalism (for one semester), published poetry, taken a course on short novels, and watched most everything ever filmed by Quentin Tarantino. A Wyoming native transplanted in Baton Rouge, Wendy works for Louisiana State University as an IT analyst. She’s a wife, a mom, a Tiger, a Who Dat, and she falls asleep on her couch at 8:30 on weeknights.
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Pet the Cover: Moth by @SeanPoindexter
It’s time to pet the cover for Ellysian Press‘s upcoming release for Moth by Sean T. Poindexter! The artwork is by Drastiq Designs. Moth is due out summer, 2014!
Get your fingers ready to pet it!
Blurb:
Social worker Max Hollingsworth is no stranger to monsters. Supernatural or human, he’s faced all kinds. But when he’s called upon to investigate a missing child, he may have met his match.
Children are vanishing, not just from the streets, but from their parents’ memories. Max’s investigation leads him to a gang of neo-Nazi vampires running a child slavery ring. There, he comes face to face with the deadliest enemy he’s ever met, their charismatic and powerful leader Boone.
Running low on hope and options to find the missing children, Max turns to his friends for help. But even they aren’t enough. Forced to face the darkness of his own past, Max forges an alliance with the least likely ally of all. An enemy whose cruelty was almost his end, and haunts him still.
About Sean:
Though born in Mesa, Arizona, Sean has spent most of his life in Missouri. After college, Sean went into social and investigative work, primarily with disabled adults and seniors. Sean’s background in sociology, criminology, and philosophy and his experience as an investigator for the State of Missouri, are heavy influences in his writing.
While Sean has been writing most of his life, he did not consider doing so professionally until he was inspired by a terrible vampire movie. During the film, Sean amused himself by imagining the vampires being attacked by a dragon. His imagination resulted in his series, The Dragon’s Blood Chronicles, featuring dragons and vampires.
Sean enjoys watching and reading science fiction, fantasy, horror, and thrillers. His hobbies include playing Xbox, fantasy role playing games and collecting firearms.
Moth is Book 1 of The Max Hollingsworth Paranormal Mysteries. Sean’s other books include The Shadow of Tiamet and The Will of the Darkest One, both from The Dragon’s Blood Chronicles.
Sean’s Links:
Website: http://www.seanpoindexter.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sean.poindexter.author?fref=ts&ref=br_tf
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SeanPoindexter
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5369073.Sean_Poindexter?from_search=true
Pet the Cover: Blood of a Mermaid by @OkatieO
Oh, the pretty! Isn’t it gorgeous? You’ll get to actually pet it very soon since Blood of a Mermaid releases May 30th! Here’s what it’s about:
Mermaid blood.
When Shea MacNamara fell into the ocean for the first time, he found he could breathe underwater. The son of a mermaid, the sea is in his blood. Literally. The best part of Shea’s new life? His girlfriend Kae, who also happens to be a beautiful mermaid.
But darkness lurks under the sea. When evil mermen kidnap Kae, the king reminds Shea that having royal blood means making tough choices.
An Arctic dungeon, a fiery plane crash, the legendary halls of Atlantis…and narwhals?
Having mermaid blood just got a lot more complicated.
About Katie:
Katie O’Sullivan lives with her family and big dogs next to the ocean on Cape Cod, drinking way too much coffee and inventing new excuses not to dust. A recovering English major, she earned her degree at Colgate University and writes romance for young adults and the young at heart. Her editing column, “The Write Way,” appears in the Literary Women section of CapeWomenOnline magazine.
Living next to the Atlantic influences everything she writes. Her YA mermaid series begins in Nantucket Sound with SON OF A MERMAID, and continues the undersea adventures with BLOOD OF A MERMAID, coming from Crescent Moon Press in May 2014. Her latest contemporary romance from The Wild Rose Press is MY KIND OF CRAZY, a Cape Cod story of second chances and starting over.
Website: www.katie-osullivan.com
Blog: http://katieosullivan.blogspot.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorKatieOSullivan
Twitter: https://twitter.com/OkatieO
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3326303.Katie_O_Sullivan
Amazon Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/author/katieosullivan
I read Son of a Mermaid and loved it, so I’m counting down the seconds until May 30th!
Pet the Cover: Portals by @MaerWilson
Whoa. Where have I been? Is this real life right now? I’ve been sailing around space and fighting off ghosts during my National Novel Writing Month project, so I’m not 100% sure what’s been happening on earth. In case you’re wondering, I’ve been cramming daily word counts down NaNoWriMo’s figurative throat. Most of it looks like poo, but every once in awhile, something brilliant pops onto the screen. More about that later. After November. After I’ve recovered.
One thing that I do know is happening in real life is Maer Wilson’s cover reveal for Portals, which releases mid-December. Get your fingers ready and pet it!
Now that is a beautiful cover! Here’s more about the book:
For supernatural detectives Thulu and La Fi, “normal” is a relative term. La Fi is a medium, Thulu is a finder, and their usual clients are already dead.
But when their friend Reo is shot, and a group of stranded angels show up at their house for help to find a missing child, things are striking too close to home.
And now the portals that let the magical races return to Earth have started opening on their own.
With trips off-world, a kidnapped psychic and changes to their own abilities, Thulu and La Fi are hit with a lot more than they usually handle. Of course, their magical friends are there to help, but even they may not be enough to save an increasingly unstable Earth.
Portals is the sequel to Relics and is Book 2 in The Thulukan Chronicles.
And here’s more about Maer:
After a successful career being other people, and later teaching others the many tricks of that trade, Maer Wilson has decided to be herself for a while. Turns out she’s a writer. She’s always loved stories, especially fantasy, mystery and sci fi. Maer was born in the Year of the Dragon and has a dragon-themed room in her home, but sadly no dragons in the back yard. When she’s not writing, Maer plays online video games, teaches college and reads. She also co-hosts the literary podcast, MythBehaving and writes for two gaming fansites. Maer lives in the high desert of Southern Nevada with her two dogs, a chihuahua and a poodle. Relics is the first novel in her series, The Thulukan Chronicles. The second novel, Portals, is scheduled for release mid-December, 2013. You can find all books and novelettes in The Thulukan Chronicles at Amazon. You can visit Maer’s website at http://maerwilson.com/.
Maer’s Links
Maer’s Website: http://maerwilson.com/
Maer on Amazon – http://www.amazon.com/Maer-Wilson/e/B00CDX29YW/
Maer on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Maer-Wilson-Author/149085628472833
Maer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaerWilson
Maer at Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7040319.Maer_Wilson
Maer at Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/maerw/boards/
Relics at Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17767013-relics
Relics Paperback at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Relics-Maer-Wilson/dp/1939173310/ref=pd_rhf_gw_p_t_1_E8ZZ
Relics Kindle at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Relics-ebook/dp/B00CLB6HUI/ref=pd_rhf_gw_p_t_1_DARZ
Well, that’s all for now. I need to fly back into space to make sure my characters are okay. I keep leaving them in horrible situations! See you in December!
Pet the Cover: @JordanKRose’s The Demon Mistress
Hey, everyone! Today I have the pleasure of sharing something pretty with you! Here is a cover worthy of petting:
I love the colors in this one! Here’s what it’s about:
What’s a girl to do when she discovers her husband, who happens to be the Master Vampire for the New England Region, has been lying to her for, oh, say a hundred and eighty years?
Well, it all depends. If she’s accidentally released forty demons from some creepy old book, unintentionally announced the existence of vampires on The Internet, kidnapped a werewolf, enraged a lovesick vampire by stealing his approved mate, and attracted the attention of The High Commander for The Vampire Federation, not to mention gotten stoned and mastered the forbidden art of demon calling, she might be willing to call it even.
Or, she might plead her case at an Inquisition and hope like all hell, she isn’t staked before sunrise. Eh, a slightly busier night than usual, but nothing Eva Prim can’t handle.
About Jordan:
Jordan loves vampires. But if you know anything about Jordan, you already knew that detail. What you didn’t know was it wasn’t long ago that she began writing about them.
A few years back Jordan received a copy of Twilight from her husband as part of her anniversary gift. By the end of that week she’d read the entire series and moved onto Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles. Eight weeks and eighteen vampire books later the idea for her first book, Perpetual Light came to her followed very quickly by Eva Prim.
In October of 2013 The Demon Mistress, the first Eva Prim Novel is available along with four short stories. For continual updates on Eva please join the Snack Of The Week Club at www.evaprim.com.
Coming November 2013 Black Magic Rose, Book One of The Alliance Series. Join Jordan’s newsletter for updates.
Jordan is a member of the national Romance Writers of America organization and several chapters.
When she’s not writing about one vampire or another Jordan enjoys spending time with her husband, Ken and their lovable Labrador, Dino on the beautiful beaches of New England.
Find Jordan at:
Find Jordan on her website at www.jordankrose.com.
Follow her tweets on https://twitter.com/#!/jordankrose
Friend her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jordan-K-Rose-Author/307285709309992
Follow her Pinterest boards at: http://pinterest.com/jordankrose/boards/
Friend her on Goodreads at: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5751865.Jordan_K_Rose
Pet @TFWalsh’s Cover for Cloaked in Fur
I have a great cover reveal for you today for T.F. Walsh’s paranormal debut called Cloaked in Fur, which releases August 5th.
Here it is!
I give you permission to pet it because you know that fur is going to be so soft. Go on and pet it, you know you want to.
Here’s the blurb and a bit more about the author:
Cloaked in Fur
As a moonwulf, Daciana never expected to fall in love with a human. Hell, she never imagined that she’d abandon her pack, endanger everyone around her, and break the worst rule possible. But she did.
A rogue werewolf is killing Daciana’s friends, and she sets on capturing the creature. She’ll do whatever it takes to stop the beast. The police and her boyfriend, Inspector Connell Lonescu, are starting to question her involvement in the murders, which is endangering the pack’s secret existence. But when the pack alpha kidnaps Connell, revealing the awful truth about the creature and its connection to the pack, Daciana must choose between saving the man she loves and saving her pack family from certain death.
Paranormal Suspense With Strong Romance
Publisher: Crimson Romance (add hyperlink to wording ‘Crimson Romance’: www.crimsonromance.com )
About The Author
T.F. Walsh emigrated from Romania to Australia at the age of eight and now lives in a regional city south of Sydney with her husband. Growing up hearing dark fairytales, she’s always had a passion for reading and writing horror, paranormal romance, urban fantasy and young adult stories. She balances all the dark with light fluffy stuff like baking and traveling.
Author Links
Winners, and a #NewAdult #CoverReveal by @KaryRader
Drum roll, please! I have the winners of the Summer Lovin’ Blog Hop. Would you like to know who they are?
The winner of the shiny Kindle Paperwhite is Maria Maltais!
The winner of the huge swag pack and the $25 gift card is Kristi Chambers!
The winner of the $5 gift card to the book store of their choice is Connie Phillips!
Congratulations to all the winners!
Okay, time to switch gears to a New Adult cover reveal by author Kary Rader. Commence the cover petting in 3, 2, 1!
I love it! Here’s the blurb:
Cheerleader Taylor Smith doesn’t want to die a virgin. Unfortunately, if the terminally-ill leukemia patient doesn’t find a lover or a stem-cell match within months, her fear will become reality. But when her cancer mentor is revealed to be a hottie entrepreneur from California, it seems fate might finally be on her side.
Tech-geek Gavin Taylor has everything he ever wanted, except someone to grieve for him when he’s gone. With his melanoma cancer beyond the help of his riches, he agrees to participate in a cancer patient mentoring program where he’s matched with a dying teen from Texas. Despite his immediate attraction, the Silicon Valley whiz intends only to provide friendship and happy memories to the beautiful, young woman who is determined to win his love.
When it’s discovered that his frozen sperm and her harvested eggs could lead to a cure, Taylor’s mother offers to be a surrogate. And Gavin must decide if he can risk the heart he has never given and a child he’ll never know to a girl he just met.
About Kary:
Kary Rader is a stay-at-home mother of three, avid reader and slave to the characters and worlds inside her head. Her book Queen of Jastain, published by Crescent Moon Press released this past April. Kary is currently in the process of self-publishing a book that is close to heart, and is sure to touch the lives of all the readers that encounter it. A Taylor-Made Life releases this summer. (Look for the cover reveal coming soon!)
Always creative, she’s drawn to stories with fantastical worlds and creatures. With a little bit of magic and divine guidance, there isn’t anything that can’t be accomplished with words. It’s the power of words that creates and destroys.
Vanquishing evil and injustice while finding eternal love in the process is all in a day’s work. And with the help of her critique partners and master cartographer imaginary places come to life.
Website: http://www.karyrader.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KaryRaderauthor?fref=ts
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KaryRader
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18012643-a-taylor-made-life
Because Kary is so cool, she’s offering a giveaway! Here are the details:
Prize: A signed copy of Kary’s book Queen of Jastain, and E-ARC of A Taylor-Made Life and a charm bracelet.
Giveaway Rules:
- Giveaway begins June 21st and will end June 24th 11:59 EST. The winner will be announced on June 24th on Kary Rader’s Facebook page.
- Open to U.S. residents only
- We are not responsible for items lost in the mail & have the right to disqualify anyone, at any time.
- Personal information given by the applicant in the giveaway will never be shared. All information is deleted once the giveaway ends.
Just click on the Rafflecopter below!
Serenya’s Song NEW COVER Reveal Party!
My friend and critique partner is having a cover reveal for her novel, Serenya’s Song, TONIGHT! Here’s the link and more information:
https://www.facebook.com/events/558913810796302/
Serenya’s Song, Book Two of the stand-alone Tallenmere fantasy romance series, was born in April 2012. To better reflect its place as the darker middle-child of the series, cover artist Caroline Andrus and Mysti tore the original cover down and redesigned it! Special thanks goes to KY photographer Alicia Carlton and KY model Courtney Leigh Collins for providing a beautiful image for Serenya!
On Sunday, April 28 from 5-9 PM EST, Mysti wants to show off this new beautiful cover, so please join her for a night of prizes, games, music, and merriment! Share this event AND bring a friend!
Schedule/Prize List:
Cover Reveal, Blurb, Trivia / Weekend Spotlight OR Interview
Song & Excerpt
What’s Your Hobbit Name? / Notebook & Mug
Song & Excerpt
Add Your Own Caption / 4 E-Copies of Serenya’s Song
Song & Excerpt
Share the Cover / Signed Print of Serenya’s Song
Song & Excerpt
LIKE & Share / $25 Amazon Gift Card
Join the Party HERE: https://www.facebook.com/events/558913810796302/
To learn more about Serenya’s Song and the Tallenmere Series, visit Mysti’s Goodreads page: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4625596.Mysti_Parker
This book is so good, and you can bet I’ll be at the party!