Cover Reveal: Cramping Chronicles: The First Twinge

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RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 13TH 2020

Cover Reveal: Cramping Chronicles: The First Twinge [CC]

And it's finally time to share the cover for Cramping Chronicles: The First Twinge!! #Authortube

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That's The Tea With Joey: Covers [CC]

Giving some advice on my own mistakes when it comes to covers! #Authortube

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Cover Reveal: Lights Ourt [CC]

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Cover Reveal: Dying Thoughts - Seventh Death [CC]

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Tips & Tricks: Cover Art [CC]

My top five tips & tricks when it comes to cover art! #Authortube

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Cover Reveal - She's Not Here by Mandi Lynn

About the book:  
Title: She's Not Here  
Genre: Psychological Thriller, Medical Thriller  
Release date: October 2, 2018

Blurb:

Willow watched her father diminish in front of her as Alzheimer's pulled him further away each day. When a fire creates the perfect disaster, Willow's desperation to find a cure to the disease causes her to change Samantha Ellison's life forever.

Treated as an experiment, Willow injects Samantha with a serum that mimics Alzheimer’s and deteriorates her brain. With Sam's mental capacity declining at an alarming rate, it won't be long until people start looking for answers. With Willow’s husband as the doctor, it’s only a matter of time before he uncovers the truth. The only question is whether he discovers Willow’s secrets in time to save the innocent life at stake.

About the author:

Mandi Lynn published her first novel when she was seventeen. The author of Essence, I am Mercy and She’s Not Here, Mandi spends her days continuing to write and creating YouTube videos to help other writers achieve their dreams of seeing their books published. Mandi is the creator of AuthorTube Academy, a course that teaches authors how to grow their presence on YouTube and find loyal readers. When she’s not creating, you can find Mandi exploring her backyard or getting lost in the woods.
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Cover Reveals & How They Work - The After Process

COVER REVEALS & HOW THEY WORK
So if you're been following my channel, or my blog, you'll have seen that I've done a cover reveal recently. Since this is something that's pretty common place now - especially in the indie world, I thought I would do a piece on what cover reveals are, and how they work. Plus throw in some tips and tricks to getting your cover out there and noticed. I'm writing this piece while getting ready for my second cover reveal of the year for Walk A Mile so I'm multi-tasking and giving you some tips that have spoken to me as I work.

So what is a cover reveal? Well, as it says in the name, it's when you reveal the cover for your upcoming book. You usually approach bloggers, vloggers and bookstagramers to help you spread the word. Along with the awesome cover, you'll reveal the release date and, usually, the pre-order link for everyone to go 1-click that bad boy! It can be framed to fit any number of blogs. I did mine with Dying Thoughts - Sixth Change on my youtube channel, and plan to do the same with Walk A Mile. On top of that, I had numerous bloggers etc reveal the cover on their platforms and send out the ARC link and the pre-order link.

They can be a ton of fun, but they are also a lot of work. You need to have some idea of who you're contacting, and collate that information in an easy to find place. I use Google forms to get people to sign up and then email them up to two weeks before the cover reveal will go live. This is for a number of reasons. One, it's easy for me to have everything in one place. Two, it allows the bloggers to queue up their posts. Three, it means that when I thank them on my vlog, I have their links all handy. It also means that I can work out who followed through and who didn't, which I'll get to in a moment.

So what is the point of a cover reveal? It's basically one of the many steps you take before that final publication date. It's all about driving up the hype about your book, about getting people excited and invested and it allows them to see a small part of what you've worked on. The work usually starts long before the actual date. I typically send out the google form link about 6 weeks before I'm even close to sharing the cover. That way I can post in various Facebook groups, all over social media and drum up interest from those awesome bloggers.

It's also the chance to get your buy link out there for the first time. If you're doing ARC, you can add that to the cover reveal info packet. If you're unsure what to provide the bloggers with, here's a few things I include:

1. The cover - this seems obvious, but I figured I'd expand on it a little. For my cover reveal, I had gifs made for both the vlog itself and for the people sharing the cover to use. So those got included in the email. I also had an instagram post ready, so I included that as well for anyone to share.

2. The blurb - this should seem obvious too, but you never know. If you're just sending out the cover, then people are gonna wonder what the hell the book is about, right? So you send the blurb along with everything else.

3. Any links - this can be buy links, or ARC links, or links to a pre-sale giveaway. Basically you want to give everything you want shared in the email.

4. The release date - They need to know this because otherwise no one knows when you're book goes live. And if they wanna one-click they wanna know when it'll turn up on their e-reader.

5. An author bio - This is one that I've only recently started adding. I didn't do it with Sixth Change, but I've decided to do it with Walk A Mile, simply because those blog posts look great with something about the author included.

6. An author photo - See above, no good having a bio if you don't have the photo to go with it!

7. Anything else you want included - this speaks for itself. For me it's things like the time my vlog will go live and when I'd prefer the bloggers to post. For other people it can be something else.

Going back to the fact that not everyone will follow through, I just want to touch on this briefly. Sometimes you'll have blogger who sign up but don't actually post on the day, and yeah that sucks, but it's not a reason to get upset over. Sometimes other commitments have come up, or they simply forgot. This is usually why I like to nudge people a few days before to remind them of the date, the time and all of that stuff.

And ARC, if you don't know, are Advanced Reader Copies, they are a way for you to get reviews on your book come release day. I plan to expand on this a little more in another piece, but basically I find it's best to pair that form with the cover reveal form. You might not get any sign ups, but the form is out there and it's a good starting point.

So that's cover reveals for you -do you have any tips or tricks you'd like to share? Let me know in the comments down below!

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Cover Reveal: Dying Thoughts - Sixth Change [CC]

My thanks to Joel, Madalena, Gillon, Elena M., Philomena, Laura, Aailyah & Ladies Living In Bookland for help with the cover reveal. Their blogs are listed below:

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Cover Reveal: Daughter Of The Night by Tiki Kos

Daughter of the Night by Tiki Kos

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Daughter of the Night #1 Genre: paranormal romance, young adult Release date: October 31st, 2017

Synopsis

Daughter of Nótt, your sacrifice will bring the end. When Serena returns home from a day of work, she witnesses a terrifying event which uproots her quiet existence. Attacked by a vicious creature, she is saved by a mysterious figure and introduced to the Einherja, warriors trained to protect Earth from demons. Serena soon finds out she is the descendant of an Aesir god, and her recurring dreams might just be the answer to Avonmore's ritualistic murders. Will she be able to protect her hometown, or will she be forced to sacrifice her new love? Daughter of Nótt, your sacrifice will not be in vain. A tale of passion, loss and self-awakening, Daughter Of The Nightis the debut release of Tiki Kos, and the first in the Daughter Of The Night trilogy. For fans of Mortal Instruments and Buffy, let yourself get sucked into the whirlwind of adventure and Norse Mythology.

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Author bio

YA Author of Daughter of The Night (Halloween 2017)  House Stark, Rebel, Sailor Scout, Hufflepuff, Cthulhu obsessed, Board game addict. Born and raised in Alberta, Canada. She started working on her YA novel Daughter of The Night in 2016. The first book in the trilogy. Tiki has been married to her husband Joel since 2015. She is a mother of two wonderful children.  When she isn't working on her novels, you can find her drinking coffee and eating sushi. She enjoys baking/canning, reading fantasy books, gardening and playing video games.

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Cover Reveal - First Christmas - Heather Karn

 

First Christmas

Vixen is an ice dragon shifter whose obsession with Christmas increases each day. Her clan’s village is located at the North Pole: the home of the one and only Santa Claus and his elves. She lives a life of carefree celebration until an attack from a vengeful dragon lands Vixen at the feet of her mate, a man who has never celebrated Christmas.

Lunar is from none other than the South Pole, the farthest place on Earth from Vixen’s beloved home. And as for her favorite holiday, he’s never joined in any of the human rituals surrounding it. If anything, he’s purposefully avoided them. Vixen must now take the reins and teach her mate all about the joyous time of year she celebrates year round. 

Just when their relationship starts to blossom, Vixen is kidnapped and held for ransom. Lunar will stop at nothing to save her as his first Christmas draws near. After all, there is no place like home for the holidays.

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Cover Reveal - Sweet Destiny - Janet A. Mota

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Sweet Destiny

By: Janet A. Mota

Cover by Nick Shoemaker at ALd Photography & Design

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Release Date: May 16, 2017

Ashley and Drake meet and sparks fly immediately.  There’s an instant connection and they feel they could be more.  Their relationship gets stronger and it’s time to meet the families.  Amber has a jealous sister who needs a reality check and Drake’s mother will stop at nothing to break them up.  A crazy ex-girlfriend is added to the mix and Ashley starts to rethink her whole relationship with Drake.   They have some battles to overcome but will love win?

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New Front Cover - The Friendship Triangle

Cover Reveal: Destination: Unknown

[image description: book cover art, the background is paving stones with tufts of grass through the edges of the brown dark stones. In the middle of the picture there is an orange and white ticket that reads:Destination: Unknown. At the bottom left of the ticket is the Railway sign and on the bottom right are small text which reads : SINGLE 2010. Just below the first ticket is a second one, a beige-brown coloured ticket that has across the centre: Joey Paul. On both sides of the ticket is: 1910. The top of the ticket has “2nd - Single” on it.]

#ICYMI Presenting the new cover for DYING THOUGHTS - SECOND SIGHT.

Hey Readers,

I know, it's been a long time since I did an update. I have got a few other posts already written, but thought I'd do a more personal and general one about news that may have been missed in my writing posts.

Firstly: NEW COVER ART!

Now you may have noticed that over the past year or so, there have been new covers for a few of the the books released before Dying Thoughts - Third Wish. There are a few reasons for this. Firstly, me and my cover artist, B, were no longer happy with the existing covers. Lynne & Hope was the first of the older books to get a revamp, and as you can see up above, Dying Thoughts - Second Sight has just received its new cover too! The other reasoning behind this leads onto my next point...


Secondly: PAPERBACKS!

Now, as you'll all be aware, I always planned to have every book available in both e-format and paperback. It's finally happening this year! I hired a proof-reader to read the first six books and check them for any errors, and once corrected, I have been working upon the paperback covers, uploading the files, checking formatting etc. to make sure that by the time book eight - Dying Thoughts - Fourth Week - is released, I should also be able to release a paperback version of at least three other books. By the end of 2015, ALL eight books should be available in paperback. Once that's all done, I'll plan to release in paperback and e-format at the same time.

Thirdly: COVER REVEAL!

This year, I am planning a cover reveal event for Dying Thoughts - Fourth Week. It's set for the14th August at 12:00 (BST) and will run through live until around 16:00. I am hoping to be able to find three (or more) young adult authors to take over the event for a short thirty minute period, where they can do one of the games I've planned and have ten minutes to talk about anything they wish. If you're interested in doing that, you can email me at bugbooks@virginmedia.com 

Fourthly: DYING THOUGHTS - FOURTH WEEK RELEASE!

It's taken a long time to get the book ready, but I'm pretty sure I now have an actual release day. 18th September will be the day that the fourth Dying Thoughts book is released on Amazon Kindle (and hopefully paperback shortly after). I am planning a big event for that, and will try to keep you all updated as and when I have actual ideas about what it will entail. I am very busily working on making sure the editing is done by the middle of August, so that I can send it off to the proof-reader afterwards and then set it up so that it is ready to be pre-ordered by the end of August!


I'm hopeful that these events will all go along as planned with as few hiccups as possible. I promise to keep you updated, should there be any more developments, so be sure to like my Facebook page or my Tsu, and follow along here to be kept up to date and make sure you don't miss something important!

The Trials Of An Indie Author: Outsourcing Is Expensive

The Trials Of An Indie Author: Outsourcing Is Expensive

When you get published by a traditional publishing house, you get a lot of stuff done for you, as I've talked about in my series of the After Process (links can be found here). When you go with a small publishing press or as an indie author, a lot of things fall to you (again discussed here). One of those things is paying for stuff like an editor, cover art, taxes and all that jazz. It also means that if you want to give away books or any other kind of "swag", then you're paying for that out of your own pocket too.

As an indie author, I've had to find my own editor, who I pay per book, as well as a cover artist, who I also have to pay. I also designed and paid for my bookmarks and all the other giveaways I do for for promotion. Basically, it's not cheap to market your own books and it comes at a cost, one which for some people is not something they are willing or able to do, and I respect that wholeheartedly.

For me it was not an easy choice, but at the same time I didn't lie awake at night worrying about it. Due to my many health problems, I am not able to work to the same deadlines that would be expected of me through a traditional publishing house. Although I do have deadlines I have to meet, they are beyond flexible because I'm in charge of them. 

I try to write four chapters (two of each book) over a two week period. You'll have seen me mention my progress on my Facebook page. Some weeks I do really well and do what I call "bonus" chapters. Other weeks it's a struggle to get the chapters done and I find that when I get into the last hours of the fortnight, I start to meet roadblocks with my writing. It's only when I take the pressure off that I'm able to start writing again. So for me, using a traditional publisher was not something I could do. I made the choice to go Indie and it's not one I regret because it's the best fit for me. Your mileage may, of course vary, and that's great.

The point is that part of being an indie author is working for yourself in many ways. You need to make sure you have what people need to get yourself noticed. So I have swag for giveaways and I offer up free books for both my own and other authors promotional events. It's all about getting yourself noticed and the word about your work out there and into the public eye. I haven't yet cracked the code to instant success, but I'm happy with what I'm doing.

It's not just those things that make being an indie author an expensive choice but the little things that you don't think of, like doing your own website stuff, or organising a blog book tour. You can hire someone to help you and/or do it for you, but that costs money too. I can't speak for authors who are published through smaller presses, but I know that for me being an indie author means that a lot of the final bills rest at my feet. I made the choice and I'm happy with it and for that reason I stick with it, but man, outsourcing is expensive!

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Waiting On You COVER REVEAL!

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WAITING ON YOU COVER REVEAL

As always, a few days behind, but I am pleased to share with you the cover art for my newest release - WAITING ON YOU - which will be due out in the summer! While I'm doing a catch up, here are some new reviews and interviews that might interest you as well.

Reviews of Dying Thoughts - Third Wish & Lynne & Hope

Joey guest blogs for Brenda Perlin and talks about what it's like writing the DYING THOUGHTS series. 

I also have an interview and some other guest blog posts coming up soon, so be sure to keep an eye out here, or on Facebook to catch them all!

NEW COVER REVEAL FOR LYNNE & HOPE

 

My cover artist has finished the new cover for LYNNE & HOPE, shown above. What do you all think? Her next job is to do a cover for one of my unreleased finished works and then she plans to re-do the cover for DYING THOUGHTS - SECOND SIGHT. Her plan is to re-do all the current covers bar BLACKOUT and the third DYING THOUGHTS book which got a face-lift before it was released!

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