Daniel Brown - The Curse Tablet

[Daniel]

Hello,

My name is Daniel Brown and I have just published my first book titled:

The Curse Tablet

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Curse-Tab...

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...

It is a horror-thriller novel about a couple who move to rural Somerset in order to escape their lives in the city. Little do they know that the country life is about to be torn up and ripped apart!

I've always wanted to be a writer, but as many have probably experienced, life got in the way. I stumbled through my education and ended up working at a call centre in Bristol, wondering what I was supposed to be doing with my life.... a chance advert in the Evening Post, led me to university and then onto a degree course in System Analysis.

I met my wife in my final year and we now have three wonderful children. And I'm working a job I can do and am good at...

...

BUT... I always wanted to be a writer, and over the past four years I have managed to finally complete a novel. All my others are still incomplete in a folder of shame on the iMac!

Releasing it just recently has added extra impetus to my goals and I intend to write my second book this year, hopefully going live in January 2014. There, I've said it, now let's see what life can do to get in the way!

[Jim]

Go for it :-)
Best of luck with the book

[Daniel]

Hi Jim,

Thanks for that. While it'd be fantastic if I set the world alight with my prose, i'll settle for a few people reading and liking my stories. :)

It's not going to stop me writing the next one, hopefully much quicker this time!

[David]

Hey Daniel, you asked elsewhere what people thought of the cover. I think it works quite well, but doesn't really shout horror/thriller to me. I like the image of the trees with the light shining through, but would perhaps try going darker at the bottom. Maybe try red in the duotone rather than green. Other than that Have a look at as many covers as you can in the same genre and see which ones appeal to you, and ask yourself why. Good luck with the book

[Daniel]

Thanks David. I guess the only problem with having somebody else do it for you as a favour is in going back to them and asking for a change...! :)

[David]

That can be a problem. If the friend is good in photoshop though, something like colour changes shouldn't take long

[M.A.]

Good luck Dan Brown, I loved the Da Vinci Code! ;-)

[Sammi]

(In reply to your comment on the other thread:)

For what its worth Daniel(as im a PSP newb), your cover creates a good atmosphere and even as a small icon you can read the text very well. So as an ebook cover i find it certainly does the job! I do agree though that it doesnt give much away concerning the genre, but by this point your blurb should be pulling the reader in the rest of the way.

[Tim]

To me it says "suspense" rather than "horror/thriller", but as David suggested, maybe a splash of red would cure that...

[Daniel]

M.A. wrote: "Good luck Dan Brown, I loved the Da Vinci Code! ;-)"

Heh, you have no idea how much I've heard that one... :P

If I had a penny for every time someone had said that... well, I'd have 64p or something close to that... ;)

[Daniel]

Thanks for your input guys. I'll have to have a word with my friend and see whether we can make some subtle changes...

[M.A.]

Ever the predictable one, that's me! lol