Cover: “The Clearing” by Thomas Rydder
The cover for Thomas Rydder’s upcoming supernatural thriller novel “The Clearing” – Brought to you by Greyhart Press.
Look for it coming this fall to eBook and Print!
(read an excerpt of “The Clearing” here)
BLURB: After twenty years in the Marine Corps, Major Frank Cutlip comes home to the quiet hills of his beloved Pennsylvania to take up a new life as the sheriff of Allegheny County.
Professor Jackie Lowe took up a post at Paxton University because she became enamored with western Pennsylvania’s charms, a more enduring love than she thought she would ever feel for a man.
When Jackie’s dog is savaged by wolves, their peaceful lives are shattered, and their fates entwined. On the brink of death, the dog not only survives but grows larger… and more vicious. A thousand-year cycle of slaughter is reaching its climax once more, and the peaceful wooded hills will soon be smeared with blood. Sheriff Cutlip leads his community in a hunt for the hidden terror, but then his own brother is bitten, his blood corrupted by the ancient evil. The sheriff must confront terrible choices, and he can’t do so alone.
The Clearing is a novel of ordinary people thrown together in extraordinary circumstances.
If you enjoy Dean Koontz or Michael Crichton, you should read this supernatural thriller.
Print Cover:
And the facebook timeline cover image:
Cover: “Toad’s Road-Kill Cafe” by Alan Wilkinson
Author Alan Wilkinson contacted me about doing a cover for his upcoming book “Toad’s Road-Kill Cafe,” a travel narrative, about a trip he took up the Hundredth Meridian from the Mexican to the Canadian border, through Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas.
BLURB: Gas costs $1.60 a gallon, a good breakfast $3.00. Nobody can even imagine an event like 9/11.
The year is 2000. British author Alan Wilkinson sets off from Laredo along the Tex-Mex border, turning north when he hits the hundredth meridian, the longitudinal line that separates well-watered croplands to the east from dry lands to the west: corn from cattle, farmer from cowboy.
Many a travel writer will claim to take you to the heartland of America. Most of them head from coast to coast, comparing the lifestyles that define the separate and distinct cultures of New York and California. Toad’s Road-Kill Café offers an entirely different experience, a trip that goes slap-bang through the geographical centre of the nation, northwards from Mexico to the Canadian line, with barely a stop-light in 2,700 miles.
Wilkinson’s journey takes him across vast empty spaces, through farms and settlements established little more than a century ago by pioneers who thought they could wrest a living from the Great Plains. Some succeeded; most failed. And as with individuals, so with their towns, their railroads, their farms, their businesses.
This is a country of big skies, dusty trails, and one-horse towns where the churches sometimes outnumber the houses, where there are more names in the cemetery than in the phone-book, where the past overshadows everything. It’s where the tide of history left its human jetsam to sink or swim.
Wilkinson’s account of his journey is sharply observed and spiced with humor. His observations are those of the outsider, but he clearly relishes the characters he meets along the back-roads of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas. When they offer up their life stories he records them with affection and delight, all the time pondering the question: was the settlement of this area just a piece of foolhardiness in most cases? The fact that he only finds his answer in the final chapter, after he’s driven back to Texas, suggests that it was a question worth asking.
New Pre-made’s Up
I feel like I have been neglecting my Pre-made Cover section and I had a moment today to go through some older files, covers that didn’t quite fit the bill, things started that weren’t finished, etc and cleaned a few up to add to the pre-made section.
Pre-made Cover “Behind the Shadows” – $45
Pre-Made Cover: “The Axe” – $45
Pre-Made Cover: “The Oceanside View” – $30
I’ll be adding more once I get a chance to go through more.
For information about purchasing a pre-made cover, click here
Covers: Liz Schulte’s Gaurdian Trilogy in PRINT
Author Liz Schulte decided to add her literary masterpieces to the world of printed books. I wiggled my nose and whispered a few choice words and this is what we came up with.
Look for them coming soon to print!
Cover: “Introvertical” by Samantha Brighton
The cover for Samantha Brighton’s upcoming book “Introvertical: An Introvert’s Guide to Getting to the Top”
Look for it coming soon to eBook!
Cover: “Echo of Chaos” by Crystal D. Budy
Book 3 of author Crystal D. Budy’s North Coast Mystery Series, “Echo of Chaos” is now available in print and ebook! Have a look at the new cover.
BLURB:
Photography (another non-cover post) WARNING LOTS OF PICS!
I’m not sure why I feel the need to add “another non-cover post” to my title. LOL Seems like all my posts are about covers lately. Used to be, all my posts were about photography or art. So once in a while I need to throw something non-cover related out there.
Most of my time now days is spent on doing cover art, but not all of it. I felt the need to get away from Photoshop a bit, and get in touch with my camera again, so I took a local photography workshop called “Critiquing Your Photography” instructed by Will Fields. If you’re in the area, and have an interest in photography, I highly recommend taking one of his classes. Will offers a variety of photography classes/workshops both here in Grand Rapids, Mi and in St. Louis. Varying from a 1hr Private Instruction classes, to Beginning Photography, to In Studio Lighting, to Nature Photography, to Critiquing your Photography, to weekend Photography Tours.
I had a great time, learned a lot, made a few friends, shared a bit of Photoshop knowledge, and took a bunch of pictures over the 4 week course.
Now I’m gonna share some of my pics!
I did do a post previously on the first assignment, which was called “A Non-cover Post” (go figure!) Though technically I wasn’t doing those pics FOR the assignment, I had it in mind, was sort of a practice/prelude. I had planned on doing something else, but life happened and I wound up using those shots anyways. The assignment was to pick a famous photography, and try and recreate their work/style. For those of you who don’t want to go back and read that post, just want to see pics, here are a couple from that. (no PS)
And more pics taken during the time frame of the workshop:
A Photowalk we did downtown (only cropping done)
Clouds:
An old school house one of my classmates and I found, working on shutter speed.
More shutter priority work, we were to capture motion, decided to go downtown at night, overlooking the highway.
(played with the color a bit in PS on this one)
Then I got a bit preoccupied by the way the light reflected off the Grand River, and ignored the whole motion thing:
I also tried having the kids play with flashlights at night:
And since I’m sharing pics, here are a few, not connected to the class, but a couple of us joined the Grand Rapids Flickr Group on their monthly Photowalk.
In case you missed the link above, this is Will Fields Photography website, and his Photography Workshops website.
Cover: “Hostage of the Heart” by Linda Acaster
Author Linda Acaster contacted me about redoing her medieval historical romance novel, “Hostage of the Heart” Check out the new cover!
BLURB: England, September 1066. With the northern militia raised to support the new English king, the Welsh borderlands are dangerously unprotected. Leading a force of Welsh countrymen, Rhodri ap Hywel sweeps down the valley to reclaim stolen lands, taking the Saxon Lady Dena as his battle hostage.
But who is the more barbaric: a man who protects his people by the strength of his sword-arm, or Dena’s kinsfolk who swear fealty to a canon of falsehoods and refuse to pay her ransom? Betrayed as worthless, can she place her trust, and her life, in the hands of a warrior-knight shielding dark secrets of his own? And when the tables are turned, and his honeyed words become spite, with whom does she stand?
Cover: “The Catcher of the Guy” by Emma Wulff
Emma Wulff decided to go a new route with her book “The Catcher of the Guy: A Girl’s Guide to Getting the Guy“. Here’s the sparkling new revamped cover:
*****
BLURB: We’ve all met a Catcher. The girl men fall over themselves to get an inch closer to, the girl who’s enigmatic charm seems effortless, the girl with the intriguing ability to capture the attention of even the most elusive of men. Annoying, isn’t she? But jealousy aside … how does she do it?
Packed with real life examples, anecdotes and case studies, this book examines the inner workings of the Catcher, unravelling the mystery behind her magnetic allure, revealing what gives her the edge over game players and highlighting why men will always choose a self esteem queen Catcher over a woman who bends over backwards for him. From the secret of her charm offensive to why a Catcher never sits around analyzing whether a guy is ‘into her’ or not, this dating holy grail reveals all, setting you on the path to relationship success; the path to finding the Catcher in you.
*****
The print version:
Cover: “The Self Publishing Toolkit” by Daphne Dangerlove
The cover for Daphne Dangerlove’s upcoming book, “The Self Publishing Toolkit.“
Look for it on ebook!
