Two gold covers this year! (and art notes)
Luna gave me a gold cover with Enchanted Again. 
And Berkley gave me this awesome hunk cover for Heart Secret! Below find the notes I sent to the art department...more about how the cover influenced the story later!)
I love both of them!
And here are the art notes for Heart Secret...as you can tell, I talk to the art dept. pretty much like I talk to you. :)
Tatts: If you are doing tatts: any kind of Celtic knot, or a heart shaped Celtic knot, or maybe a chain of hearts and daggers? Or a heart and a tear?
Weapons: If you are doing weapons, a long dagger and a long sword, or a long dagger and a blazer/blaser (stream of blue light?). Or an exotic knife (an exotic knife can be used in the murder), this would be shorter and must have a point, but let me know the size/shape so I can write it in.
Time of Year: Summer, heat with occasional rain showers
Settings:
1) Secret walled garden – day or night with a glowing turquoise pool and steam rising?
Hero: Garrett Primross, private eye, middle class. Has some feral animals (mostly cats) as informants. Has a leopard spotted KITTEN. Brown-blond hair, brown eyes, muscular, big.
BACKSTORY: Garrett was the sole survivor of the most virulent form of a disease that killed the woman he loved and her baby (not his child), as he was transporting them in a bus-all-terrain vehicle from a clinic to a quarantine area in the mountains. He is becoming known as a private investigator and his business is beginning to pick up. See general pics.
Oh, also, Garrett is a master at slight-of -hand, rolling a coin across his knuckles & making it appear and disappear.
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Hope you enjoy!
Robin
And Berkley gave me this awesome hunk cover for Heart Secret! Below find the notes I sent to the art department...more about how the cover influenced the story later!)
I love both of them!
And here are the art notes for Heart Secret...as you can tell, I talk to the art dept. pretty much like I talk to you. :)
Tatts: If you are doing tatts: any kind of Celtic knot, or a heart shaped Celtic knot, or maybe a chain of hearts and daggers? Or a heart and a tear?
Weapons: If you are doing weapons, a long dagger and a long sword, or a long dagger and a blazer/blaser (stream of blue light?). Or an exotic knife (an exotic knife can be used in the murder), this would be shorter and must have a point, but let me know the size/shape so I can write it in.
Time of Year: Summer, heat with occasional rain showers
Settings:
1) Secret walled garden – day or night with a glowing turquoise pool and steam rising?
Hero: Garrett Primross, private eye, middle class. Has some feral animals (mostly cats) as informants. Has a leopard spotted KITTEN. Brown-blond hair, brown eyes, muscular, big.
BACKSTORY: Garrett was the sole survivor of the most virulent form of a disease that killed the woman he loved and her baby (not his child), as he was transporting them in a bus-all-terrain vehicle from a clinic to a quarantine area in the mountains. He is becoming known as a private investigator and his business is beginning to pick up. See general pics.
Oh, also, Garrett is a master at slight-of -hand, rolling a coin across his knuckles & making it appear and disappear.
*********
Hope you enjoy!
Robin
posted by FantasyAuthor RobinDOwens | 6:19 AM
4 Comments:
Gorgeous. And while I realize art depts still aim to bookshelves at brick & mortars, these covers really pop on the computer screen and definitely will catch the eye of the ebook purchaser.
Just got the new Nook with Glow Screen yesterday. Love it!
LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!!!!
Wowza!
Seriously, sexy cover art.
Warrior PI - he more than lives up to the Garrett I read about in the Heart Secret ARC.
Thanks! Betty, congrats on the new purchase. Yes, I've been researching covers and cover art for a project I'm thinking of epubbing.
And I like this nearly as much as Heart Change. ;)
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