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Steam Punk is coming!
An excerpt of FURIES will be up this week.
Here’s a peek at a promo poster and mock-up cover for the steam punk novella Miss Brighton’s School for Exceptional Young Ladies:
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Contributing to Avon and saying hello
This is a post to say hello to anyone who wound up here via Avon's site. We've signed up to become a blog post contributor.
Beverly Jenkins and Courtney Milan are two favorite authors (of both my mom and I) who’ve written for Avon. Courtney’s got a must read post on her site titled Digital Strategy in Historical Romance where she discusses the advantages of publishers having a digital strategy vs. not having one. Her article and accompanying comments are vital to authors at any stage of their career, from newbies to those already established.
Anyway, feel free to take a look around, and this post will be updated a bit later with two cover faves from both Beverly and Courtney.
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Saturdays are for editing and digital art
What I’m up to: Editing
How I pace myself: Creating digital art to use as book promos
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The Furious Five
These are the main male leads in FURIES:
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Help pick the font for FURIES
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On A Mission
A big reason why I like self-pubbing is because I get to create my own covers and promotional materials. The cover below is a work in progress, because I’m experimenting with just how much of this YA scifi hero should remain be visible. Now that I look at it, I’m thinking about having the letter Z get pulled down by his fingers, so I’ll probably end up editing this today. As I think that letter should look more like vapors. So his fingers will get more clarity.
Mock up number 2:
This is part of a bigger push in my own books, to focus on minority males, specifically African, African American and Asian as leading males.