Anatomy of a Cover

With A Little Village Blend dropping in less than a week now from Bold Strokes Books (eee!), I thought I'd talk covers. The most wonderful thing about having a cover artist like Inkspiral is obviously how gorgeous the end result is, but I feel like cover art is one of those things we don't talk …

Squeezing the Tennis Ball

I Have No Words Before anything else, I'd like to start this post with a declaration: I've barely written anything aimed for publication in months, and that's okay. Before COVID, and before the dog blew the tendons in my arm and elbow (still not great, but getting better, and I've gotten to the point where …

Anatomy of a Cover

The brilliant Inkspiral Design posted this awesome "anatomy of a cover" image today, and I love seeing all the bits and pieces that he used to make the cover for Faux Ho Ho. Funnily enough, the tattooed image that he chose for Dino kind of makes me wish I'd inked up Dino in the story. …

Cover Reveal — Exit Plans for Teenage Freaks

Being the kid abducted by old Ms. Easton when he was four permanently set Cole's status to freak. At seventeen, his exit plan is simple: make it through the last few weeks of high school with his grades up and his head down. When he pushes through the front door of the school and finds himself …

Cover Reveal for Of Echoes Born

I don't think I'm going to shock anyone here by admitting that short fiction is my first (and still strongest) writing love. Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy reading and writing novels and novellas. I'm not going to stop, either (though I'll admit part of that is knowing that I couldn't make a writing …

Cover Reveal – Triad Blood

I never thought I'd write a novel. I was very much a lover of short fiction (I still am, by the way), and thought the closest I'd get to a novel was a series of linked short fiction tales that followed in similar settings or revisited characters. I was happy about that, and was planning …