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March 15, 2013
Behind The Cover Art
How often have you seen this comment by readers? “I was drawn to the book because of the beautiful cover.” Or sometimes, you see this. “The story was great, but I almost didn’t pick it up because of the ugly cover!”
Writers labor over a manuscript for weeks, months, and sometimes, years. Once it’s accepted by a publisher, their “baby” goes through several processes before it finally hits the shelves. One of the most stressful of these steps is choosing a book cover. First, you have to decide w...
March 1, 2013
Coming Soon!
Orizzonti serie: Libro 2
Quello che sarebbe dovuto essere un breve interludio diventa qualcosa di più profondo quando Lil Lampert incontra Grier Dilorio alla Degustazione di Chicago. Lil è in città a far visita ai suoi buoni amici Jody Williams e Clark Stevens, e non aveva intenzione di rimorchiare un uomo più giovane e scoprire un reciproco interesse per l’architettura, il design d’interni, e una perversione sessuale unica che fa tornare Lil per saperne di più.
In apparenza, Grier è la quintes...
February 23, 2013
Behind The Cover Art
How often have you seen this comment by readers? “I was drawn to the book because of the beautiful cover.” Or sometimes, you see this. “The story was great, but I almost didn’t pick it up because of the ugly cover!”Writers labor over a manuscript for weeks, months, and sometimes, years. Once it’s accepted by a publisher, their “baby” goes through several processes before it finally hits the shelves. One of the most stressful of these steps is choosing a book cover. First, you have to decide w...
February 16, 2013
Winner!
The winner of the gift certificate for the Reese Dante post is tinnean. Please contact me at mickie.ashling at gmail dot com to claim your prize.
Lex Valentine will be my next featured cover artist. The post will go live next Friday so stay tuned!
If you are a cover artist who would like to be featured on this blog, feel free to contact me at the above mentioned email.
January 19, 2013
Mayon Reviewed
I was so pleased to see that Mayon received 4 hearts from Maya over at Hearts On Fire Reviews.
You can read the entire review here: http://heartsonfirereviews.com/?p=17712
January 12, 2013
Winner!
The winner of the gift certificate from last month's drawing is Juliana-"oceanakers at aol dot com. Please contact me for your prize. Thank you for commenting on Dan Skinner's Post! P.S. If you are a cover artist and would like to be featured in my monthly post, please contact me at mickie.ashling at gmail dot com. You don't have to work for any specific publisher. The only requirement is that you have one book cover on a published novel.
Behind the Cover Art-Reese Dante
How often have you seen this comment by readers? “I was drawn to the book because of the beautiful cover.” Or sometimes, you see this. “The story was great, but I almost didn’t pick it up because of the ugly cover!”
Writers labor over a manuscript for weeks, months, and sometimes, years. Once it’s accepted by a publisher, their “baby” goes through several processes before it finally hits the shelves. One of the most stressful of these steps is choosing a book cover. First, you have to de...
Behind the Cover Art
How often have you seen this comment by readers? “I was drawn to the book because of the beautiful cover.” Or sometimes, you see this. “The story was great, but I almost didn’t pick it up because of the ugly cover!”
Writers labor over a manuscript for weeks, months, and sometimes, years. Once it’s accepted by a publisher, their “baby” goes through several processes before it finally hits the shelves. One of the most stressful of these steps is choosing a book cover. First, you have to de...
January 6, 2013
Behind the Cover Art
Now that the holidays are over, I wanted to remind everyone that you have a week to enter the drawing for the $25.00 gift certificate by commenting on the Cover Art post featuring Dan Skinner. The next featured artist is Reese Dante. Here are two covers she designed for me and I show them off whenever I get a chance. Her post should go live next weekend.
December 31, 2012
Happy New Year
Happy New Year Everyone!
