Cover: “In a Small Town” by Marc A. Di Giacomo

by | Oct 3, 2013 | ,

The new cover for author Marc A. Di Giacomo’s award winning crime novel “In a Small Town”

Look for the new cover coming soon to print and ebook!

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BLURB: The shotgun blast catches Detective Matt Longo by surprise. His world unravels into a nightmare that seemingly won’t end. Murder, rapes, pedophiles, the small town of Hutchville, N.Y. is changing. It is up to him to make a difference.

While partner Donny Mello is in Italy attending a family funeral for someone “connected,” a beautiful F.B.I. agent waits to question Donny about his family business. What will Matt learn from the Agent? Will Donny Mello return in time to help Matt Longo catch his shooter? More importantly, can Matt hide a potentially career-ending secret from his community, his brother, and most especially Agent Cynthia Shyler?

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October Author Services Showcase Event

by | Oct 2, 2013 | ,

ATTENTION INDIE AUTHORS!!

Did you know that S.M. Boyce is hosting an October Author Services Showcase event on her Writer’s Corner Blog?

What’s an author services showcase event you ask? Well, each DAY through out the month of October, one indie publishing professional will be in the spotlight. Talented professionals ranging from editors, to cover artists, to tour companies, and more from around the globe. They will share a little about what they do and their services, but that’s not even the best part! There are also GIVEAWAYS for these services!

That’s right! Giveaways for FREE indie publishing services!

Each professional has something really cool to giveaway. And each individual Giveaway will last only ONE WEEK.

The event was kicked off with book formatter Julie Titus of JT Formatting giving away a free formatting package. And today’s spotlight is on fiction editor Chase Nottingham, who is giving away free copyedit of 15,000 words.

Who will be in tomorrow’s spotlight? You’ll have to check back at the Writer’s Corner Blog to find out! Or follow S.M. Boyce’s Facebook Page to keep up to date.

Or click here to see the full line up!

Some of you may be wondering why I’m posting this, well duh! I AM a professional of the indie publishing world. And yes, I WILL be in the spotlight on Oct 17th!

Covers: The Justice Series Face-Lift

by | Sep 27, 2013 | ,

Author M.A. Comley is preparing for the release of the 7th book of the best-selling  Justice series, and decided to give the entire series a face-lift. So we started with “Virtual Justice” (book 7), then took that feel across the entire series. (you can currently still see the old covers in my portfolio)

Look for the upcoming release for “Virtual Justice” coming soon to ebook! And keep an eye out for the cover change overs on the rest of the series!

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CAC Designer Challenge

by | Sep 26, 2013 | ,

****DESIGNER CHALLENGE****

Ever wonder what cover artists do to push themselves artistically? Well wonder no more!

We bring you the monthly Cover Art Collective designer challenge!

Every month a selection of our designers will create a cover using the same stock image.

Check out this month’s SEVEN entries and vote for your favorite by posting the word VOTE in the comments of your favorite design (not here).

Each month one lucky designer will get to hold the title of challenge champion and only YOU can decide who that will be!

To vote for your favorite design, click on the image below and post the word VOTE in the comment section of your favorite image (not the album).

Feel free to click “like” on any image to show appreciation for the designer and their design. It will not count as a vote.

Voting ends at 11:50PM on SUNDAY September 29.

The Challenge winner will be officially announced on Monday, September 30.

Photography : Print Giveaway

by | Sep 21, 2013 | ,

Yep, this is a blatant self promotion post!

Last week I started a giveaway purely to gain more facebook likes on my photography facebook page. (only 3 likes away from 100! sighs..I know, sounds so lame lol) Sadly, starting the giveaway with only 67 current fb likes (a large chunk friends and family) there’s not a whole lot of interaction on the giveaway. I was really hoping for more (don’t we all?).

I dipped my toes in with giving away a four pack of fine art greeting cards to three winners. My hope was to gain enough likes or interaction with the giveaway to slowly work my way up to giving away larger prints. We’ll see, it’s not over yet! There’s still a couple days left to enter!

If you are interested in entering the giveaway, either go to my facebook page and enter here, or to the giveaway’s webpage here.

3 Winners will be chosen, and each will have their choice of one of 6 series of 4pk Cards. Each card was put together by hand and signed by me.

Curious as to what cards put together by me look like? Here’s a pic from when I finished making the last batch from my last show:

[Note: These are NOT necessarily IN the Giveaway, those images are shown further below]

 

HERE are the images for each card pack:

FOUR SEASONS

FLOWERS

LIGHTHOUSES

 

INSECTS & SPIDERS

(a slightly different crop)

 

BIRDS OF PREY

 

ABANDONED

 

Whew! That’s a lot of images! So there you have it, the prints being given away.

So really, if you took the time to read this post, take a min to enter the giveaway! What does it hurt?

Cover: “Catered to Death” by Marlo Hollinger

by | Sep 20, 2013 | ,

I have so much fun doing the covers for Cozy Cat Press! Here is the latest cozy mystery, written by author Marlo Hollinger, “Catered to Death”.

Look for it coming soon to print and ebook!

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BLURB: DeeDee and Steve Pearson enjoy that rare thing––a happy marriage.  The only fly in their marital bliss is the fact that they are approaching retirement age with only one pension (Steve’s).  DeeDee hopes to remedy their financial situation by starting her own business––a catering company.  Her first job is at Eden Academy, a private school staffed by teachers who loathe one another and a principal who is strongly lacking in principles, especially when it comes to his female employees.  When this lothario winds up dead after DeeDee’s luncheon, and her first paycheck is put on what looks like permanent hold, DeeDee decides to find out who murdered the man so that she can be assured that her first catering job will be “paid in full.” As she investigates all the faculty and staff at Eden, she soon discovers that any one of them could have finished off their boss.  Will DeeDee solve the murder and get her paycheck?  Or will she end up “catered to death”?

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