Thursday 15 December 2016

Cover Reveal: REACH FOR YOU by Pat Esden

Professional Cover Reveal Tours: Why I chose to use one
Plus, my latest cover! 
Pat Esden


Today is the cover reveal tour for REACH FOR YOU, the third book in my Dark Heart series. It’s easy to understand why I’m excited about sharing my cover. Covers are fun, they give clues about a novel’s plot, hint at what tone and emotions a reader can expect, and showcase genre. Covers are designed to tease and tempt a reader into turning the book over and reading the blurb on its back.  For me, sharing a book’s cover for the first time is like placing the cherry on the top of an ice-cream sundae that I’ve been working on for months and months. It’s the final touch before the book is released and readers can dive in and devour it.

Those of you who are authors can probably relate to those things. But perhaps you’re wondering why I chose to have a professionally organized cover reveal tour rather than simply hosting it on my own social media and in my newsletter. First of all, using a professional tour is not mandatory.  But for me, it is a way to generate maximum excitement without investing a lot of time.

If I only used my own social media site, then I’d only reach people who are already familiar with my Dark Heart series. Reaching those people is vital. But for a relatively small cost, I can move beyond that circle of followers and have hundreds or even thousands of new readers see my latest cover and discover my books existence. Plus, I can choose a tour that specializes in my book’s genre to guarantee my cover reveal will hit the right readers. Hopefully, this will lead to pre-orders that might not have happened otherwise and to new fans discovering my series.

Sure, I could ask my blogging friends to host my reveal. That would expand the circle to a degree. But organizing a tour takes time, time that I could be using to work on my next novel. A professional tour organizer will find the bloggers (this can include my friends), get the material to them, remind them when the posts need to go live, and basically make sure the reveal is timely and professional without my help. If there is an issue, the organizer will serve as the go-to person, removing all stress and allowing me to enjoy the reveal instead.


So what does the cover for my upcoming release look like?

Here it is!




Blurb:

REACH FOR YOU (Dark Heart series book 3)

Her passion is her greatest weakness.
His legacy is his prison.
To reunite, both must fight the demons within.

A world of deception and danger separates Annie Fremont from her mother—and from Chase, the enigmatic groundskeeper with whom Annie’s fallen in love. But she vows to find her way back to them, before Chase succumbs to the madness that threatens his freedom. The only person who can help is the magical seductress, Lotli, a beautiful, manipulative woman . . . a woman who has disappeared.

Annie must stay strong, even as the future she imagined is slipping away. With the help of family and friends, she discovers that Lotli is being held against her will, by those who want to exploit her powers. But though weakened, Lotli remains a powerful ally and adversary. A bargain is struck. And now Annie’s only chance to rescue Chase could also tear them apart . . .

Loyalties will be tested, walls will be breached, and enemies will be fought, yet Annie’s greatest battle lies within her own heart—to trust her love for Chase to overcome its greatest enemy, and to save those she holds most dear from the terrifying realm of the djinn. For all of their lives depend on it.


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About Pat Esden

Pat Esden would love to say she spent her childhood in intellectual pursuits. The truth is she was fonder of exploring abandoned houses and old cemeteries. When not out on her own adventures, she can be found in her northern Vermont home writing stories about brave, smart women and the men who capture their hearts.  
An antique-dealing florist by trade, she’s also a member of Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, Romance Writers of America, and the League of Vermont Writers. Her short stories have appeared in a number of publications, including Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, the Mythopoeic Society’s Mythic Circle, and George Sciter’s Cat Tales Anthology.
The first two books in her Dark Heart series, A HOLD ON ME and BEYOND YOUR TOUCH are available from Kensington Books.  REACH FOR YOU (book #3 Dark Heart series) will be released June 27th.


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Monday 12 December 2016

Cover Reveal: The Survival Pact by Christy Sloat

Exclusive cover reveal for The Survival Pact by best selling author Christy Sloat!

The Survival Pact releases February 17, 2017 from CHBB Publishing #onehouseunited


Three friends. One promise. One goal. Survive.

Kami thought she'd seen it all as a small time reporter for a New York Paper, but after hearing reports of the dead crawling from graves and attacking humans, she realized the world she once knew would never be the same again. Forced to flee the city, she heads south where her two best friends Emma and Lou reside in search of answers. As a drunken joke ten years earlier, the three friends made a vow that if the world went to hell they’d survive it together, no matter what. With the pact now a reality, they are forced to face a never ending tidal wave of the dead, tornadoes, earthquakes, and massive storms with hundreds of miles to go. Along with their new dog, Snack, the girls get closer to their destination but no closer to answers as to why their world is filled with such evil. Will their plan of survival keep them alive or will they drown in the sea of the dead?


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A Guide to Christmas Reading by Claire of @themawkwardpotatoes

A guide to Christmas reading for your own enjoyment!


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Friday 9 December 2016

Book Blitz: Discord by Katy Haye PLUS Giveaway

Today we're featuring Katy Haye's DISCORD. Check out this young adult novel and don't forget to enter the Rafflecopter below.

Discord

by Katy Haye

Genre: Young Adult

Release Date: December 8th 2016


Summary from Goodreads:


Beth forgot her past. What if there’s nothing to remember?


Seventeen-year-old Beth has brain damage. That’s why she lives in a hospital in the middle of the English countryside filled with therapeutic music and medical tests. Some days she feels well enough to go home, but other days – the days filled with shadows and ghosts, and a strong sense of déjà vu – she fears she’ll never get better.


Toby’s arrival signals a turning point. Beth faces her fears instead of hiding from them. But even with Toby’s help, is she strong enough to face a truth that is stranger than anything Beth could imagine?







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Katy Haye spends as much time as possible in either her own or someone else's imaginary worlds. She has a fearsome green tea habit, a partiality for dark chocolate brazils and a fascination with the science of storytelling.

When not lost in a good book, Katy may be found on her allotment growing veg and keeping hens in order to maximise her chances of survival in the event of a zombie apocalypse or similar catastrophe (admittedly, this would not help if the entire country flooded...).

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Monday 5 December 2016

Book Blitz: Alterations by Stephanie Scott @StephScottYA


Today we're joining the ALTERATIONS book blitz! Check out this young adult contemporary romance by Stephanie Scott and don't forget to enter the rafflecopter at the end of the post!


Alterations

by Stephanie Scott

Genre: YA Contemporary Romance

Release Date: December 6th 2016

Bloomsbury Spark



Summary from Goodreads:



If anyone saw the prom boards Amelia Blanco makes on her favorite fashion app, they'd think Ethan Laurenti was her boyfriend. They wouldn't know that all the plans she's made for them are just dreams, and that she's the girl who watches him from the kitchen while her parents cook for his famous family.



When Amelia's abuelita enrolls her in a month-long fashion internship in NYC, Amelia can't imagine leaving Miami--and Ethan--for that long. As soon as she gets to New York, however, she finds a bigger world and new possibilities. She meets people her own age who can actually carry on a conversation about stitching and design. Her pin boards become less about prom with Ethan and more about creating her own style. By the time she returns to Miami, Amelia feels like she can accomplish anything, and surprises herself by agreeing to help Ethan's awkward, Steve-Jobs-wannabe brother, Liam, create his own fashion app.



As Liam and Amelia get closer, Ethan realizes that this newly confident, stylish girl may be the one for him after all . . . even though he has a reality TV star girlfriend he conveniently keeps forgetting about. The "new and improved" Amelia soon finds herself in between two brothers, a whole lot of drama, and choice she never dreamed she'd have to make.

About the Author
Hello! I write Young Adult stories about teens who put their passions first. I'm an active member of Romance Writers of America and its online YA chapter YARWA, and I mentor writers in online pitch contests. I love dance fitness and cat memes, and Pinterest is driving me broke. I live outside of Chicago with my tech-of-all-trades husband. You can find me most often online on twitter and Instagram at @StephScottYA. My debut ALTERATIONS about a fashion-obsessed loner who reinvents herself releases 12/6/16 from Bloomsbury Spark, and I'm a contributor to the young adult short story anthology WELCOME HOME out in spring 2017.


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Friday 2 December 2016

The Moana Book Tag @themawkwardpotatoes

Today Claire does the Moana Book Tag and shares some of her favourite books (and sings along to some of her favourite songs from the soundtrack!)
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Thursday 1 December 2016

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