J.J. DiBenedetto is showing off his new release, THE QUEEN OF EMERALD FALLS, on my blog today. Don't forget to enter J.J.'s giveaway. Welcome!
The cover for “The Queen of Emerald Falls” was designed by Rachel Rossano (www.rachelrossano.com), who’s an author in her own right as well as a talented designer.
I initially worked with her to redesign the
covers for another series of mine, the Jane Barnaby Adventures, and she did an
amazing job, so I went to her again for this book.
I’m thrilled with her work, and what makes
her really great to work with is, since she’s an author herself, she already
knows what readers are looking for and how to create an original design that
also fits what readers are looking for in each genre.
Another reason the covers are so good is
that I didn’t really direct her, which is a lesson I learned with my very first
book. I worked with a very talented
artist who hand-painted the cover to my specifications, and it was
beautiful…and totally not right for the genre or reader expectations. It was a hard lesson but a valuable one!
The kitchen provided no relief from
thoughts of her. The marble island brought back memories of Sheryl’s
disastrous attempt to make French toast. A glance at the espresso
machine called to mind the night she’d somehow caused it to spew hot coffee all
over the floor. He still didn’t know how she’d managed that;
according to the manufacturer, it was physically impossible for the machine to
do what she’d made it do.
She’d made over his living room against
his will, defiled his kitchen, done unspeakable things to the finest espresso
machine money could buy, driven him to distraction in more ways than he could
count - and yet, if she were to come walking back through his front door, Jon
knew he’d most likely forget all that and kiss her as though both their lives
depended on it.
He could call her. It would be
the easiest thing in the world. And didn’t he tell his patients that
most of the obstacles they complained about were of their own making, that they
had the power to overcome them, that - usually, anyway - all they really had to
do was get out of their own way?
He did. And it was absolutely
true. It was also - as so many of those patients remarked at the end
of sessions - far easier to tell someone else to do, than to do it oneself.
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