WINGSPAN Cover Release

I am excited to show the cover for Wingspan, designed by the unbelievably talented Elaina Lee. She designed the covers for Spellbound, Everspell, and Ghostly.  As I made my choice to release Wingspan with a new publishing company, esKape Press, I was both surprised and delighted to learn she would be my new artist.  She just knows how I like the covers to look, and she just GETS me.  Thanks, Elaina.

So, I'd love to unveil the beautiful cover here, and entice you with both it and the blurb.  Look for Wingspan, coming early December, from esKape Press!

Chessa Dawning never thought she’d be the kind of girl who’d be on the run.  Yet, here she was, having left the only home she’s ever known, staying two steps ahead of the men chasing her and falling for a resourceful ex-criminal with colorful friends. And that was just this week.

Most of the time, Charlotte Lake can’t believe her life.  The reluctant leader of a rebel faction called the Ginger Nation, Charlie’s days are filled with planning surveillance, rescuing detainees, and exposing government conspiracy.  Surrounded by loyal friends and soldiers, she knows she can never reveal the true nature of her quest: finding her real father.

When a sudden twist in both their lives brings these two girls together, revelations about their past will make them rethink where they came from, and define their future in ways they never could have imagined.  Not every scientific breakthrough is a gift.

Cover Art Is In!

I am excited to say that today, more than ever, my book being published seems real.  Yesterday, I received the cover art.  It is absolutely gorgeous.  Beyond gorgeous.  And it is an actual cover, not something photoshopped.  The artist, the seriously talented Elaina Lee, had a model and she painted it from the model.  I'm sure I sound as green as they come, but clearly I DID NOT KNOW that is how it was done.  This was no cover created from your nephew's computer, honey.  What she did is mystical and magical and perfectly, perfectly suited to the mood and tone of my book, SPELLBOUND.  She captured the right atmosphere and elements and I could not be more thrilled with it.

Having an actual cover means there is an actual book.  I feel validated.  As we get closer to the release date, I begin to feel more like a real writer.  Of course, the second I wrote those words, the writer in me began screaming and stamping her foot. 

"What do you mean 'a real writer?  What the hell do you think you are now?"

I'll admit, being off work (ok, unemployed, I just hate that word.  *off-work* sounds more like it was my decision, at least) makes me feel like I am a writer.  Like, traipsing around in flip-flops midday is how I would choose it, given the choice.  But, somehow, even though I have a book coming out, I still feel a bit off answering, "I'm a writer." to questions of, "So, what do you do?"  I wonder, how many books do you have to write before that answer doesn't sound like a lie?