Cover: “The Dark Proposal” by Megan Cashman

by | May 8, 2012 | ,

My latest commissioned work was for author Megan Cashman and her upcoming novel “The Dark Proposal”

Look for it on eBook, coming this summer!

Blurb: Girls, if you had the perfect boyfriend who suddenly reveals he is a vampire, and also wants to make you one or else…what do you do?

That is the dilemma college graduate Claire McCormick faces when the man who brightened up her life turns out to be a murderous vampire who won’t take no for an answer when he proposes Claire to join him for eternity. She faces becoming evil herself or have evil done to her and her loved ones. The Dark Proposal explores Claire’s nightmare and fears while she makes her decision. Along the way, she learns why exactly her boyfriend wants her to be vampire like him.

And the Facebook Timeline Cover Image:

A Non-Cover Post

by | May 5, 2012 | ,

Look! I’m posting about something that isn’t book cover related! I’m taking a break from covers, well for the weekend 😛 I was really bored today, refused to ‘work’, it was raining outside, and I didn’t want to clean.  So I got my camera out, ran outside through the rain to pick a few flowers that are in bloom (left the camera in the house), and thought I’d play with my macro lens.

My husband bought me a macro lens flash for Christmas the year before last. It takes AAA, and EVERY time I go to try it, I didn’t have any batteries! So it’s been sitting in my camera bag for what? A year and a half now? Well today I had batteries!

I set up a small backdrop, dug out the tripod, swapped to the macro lens,  hooked up the never used flash and started shooting. This flash thing is pretty cool. I was able to play with lighting on a small scale. It’s a lower end flash. Not one that actually attaches to the lens, but instead is on a bendable arm. (Found one on Amazon.) The bendable arm is pretty neat because I can move it around and change the lighting directions, not just center it with the lens.

Everything I shot today, I shot in black and white, was just the mood I was in I guess. I have been looking at a lot of older work from photographers such as Imogen Cunningham, and Edward Weston, so I suppose you could say that was influencing me a bit.

The shots are all as is….as in NO PHOTOSHOP! Shocking isn’t it??? The only correction between camera and computer was file size, and slapping my name in the corner. I had to force myself not to adjust the contrast, or crop, or tint, or high light, or open the curves, or add layers of texture and dodge and burn, and and…oh sorry..was getting away from myself there a bit.

Anyways…here’s some eye candy for your Saturday evening. Though I imagine most people have better things to do on a Saturday night, unlike me.

Azalea Blossoms

Bleeding Hearts

Peony

Covers: “The Kult” & “Killers” by Shaun Jeffrey

by | Apr 28, 2012 | ,

I was recently contacted by Shaun Jeffrey about remaking his covers for his Prosper Snow Novels. He was looking for something that said “psychological thriller” instead of out right horror or Gothic, but he also wanted it obvious that the two books were part of the same series. After a couple shots at it, and a little bit of tweaking here and there, this is what we came up with:

The Kult Blurb: People are predictable. That’s what makes them easy to kill.

Out of misguided loyalty, police officer Prosper Snow is goaded into helping his friends perform a copycat killing, but when the real killer comes after him, it’s not only his life on the line, but his family’s too. Now if he goes to his colleagues for help, he risks being arrested for murder. If he doesn’t, he risks being killed.

Killers Blurb: Murder makes monsters of people. Prosper Snow knows that better than most. Now he’s back on the trail of another serial killer, only this time there’s far more to the case than meets the eye. Thwarted at every turn, Prosper unwittingly uncovers a human experiment more monstrous than anything he could ever imagine. Now the only way to crack the case is to work from the inside and join a shadowy government agency that operates outside the law. Only he might be too late as the experiment has spiralled out of control.

Cover: “Coke with a Twist” by A.W. Hartoin

by | Apr 18, 2012 | ,

The latest in cover designs was done for author A.W. Hartoin and her short story, an introduction to her upcoming Mercy Watts series, “Coke with a Twist“

Look for it coming soon to eBook!

BLURB:

“Marilyn Monroe look-a-like, Mercy Watts, has her share of problems, despite her fabulous face.  Her father’s a private investigator and when he ropes her into one of his cases, Mercy can’t contain her curiosity.  Two college students have confessed to the brutal rape of a young woman, but reason they had the opportunity, remains a mystery.  The case will take her from a dive bar to sorority row to the gutter.  But Mercy will solve the case, if she can survive it.”

And of course, the matching Facebook Timeline Cover Image:

Cover: “Following Yonder Star” by Ehud Gershom

by | Apr 10, 2012 | ,

The latest cover was designed for Ehud Gershom’s upcoming novel “Following Yonder Star: The Untold Trials of the Three Kings”. We all know the 3 kings followed the star to Bethlehem when Jesus was born, but we don’t know what may have transpired on their journey. Ehud Gershom’s fictional novel tells their story. How they met, what transpired and what happened to them afterwards.

Ehud sent me his mock-up print cover, and the stock he used, and I got to admit, it was pretty dang good. Made me a bit nervous. But went ahead and chopped up the stock image, laying it out in a manor more suited to the 3 kings, played with the color and textures and this is what we came up with. (He plans on adding the text to the back at a later time)

And of course, with the plan to use facebook as a marketing tool, the timeline cover:

And as soon as the book is out, I will link to it. It will be available for print and eBook!