For this week’s ebook promotion highlight, I’m featuring the Short and Awesome giveaway!
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Looking for something short to sink your teeth into? Try this ebook giveaway for a wide array of short stories and novellas!
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(Note: This giveaway is hosted through Book Funnel. Authors will usually ask for your email address, and in many cases, the author will collect these addresses for their newsletters.)
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I hope you find a good book.! 😀
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For this week’s ebook promotion highlight, I’m featuring the What Hides in the Shadows giveaway!
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Looking for danger lurking in the shadows? These books feature books with darker themes and a little more grit across a variety of genres, with a special emphasis on noir mysteries and thrillers.
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(Note: This giveaway is hosted through Book Funnel. Authors will usually ask for your email address, and in many cases, the author will collect these addresses for their newsletters.)
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I hope you find a good book. 🙂
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For this week’s ebook promotion highlight, I’m featuring the Girls Kick Ass giveaway!
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Do you enjoy books with strong female protagonists? Check out this giveaway!
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(Note: This giveaway is hosted through Book Funnel. Authors will usually ask for your email address, and in many cases, the author will collect these addresses for their newsletters.)
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I hope you find a good book. 🙂
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For this week’s ebook promotion highlight, I’m featuring the SFF Book Bonanza giveaway and the Mystery Thriller giveaway!
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Looking for a variety of Science Fiction and Fantasy reads? Check out the SFF Book Bonanza!
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Looking for books with mystery and thriller elements? Try this giveaway!
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(Note: These giveaways are hosted through Book Funnel and Instafreebie. Authors will usually ask for your email address, and in many cases, the author will collect these addresses for their newsletters.)
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I hope you find a good book. 🙂
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For this week’s book promotion highlight, I’m featuring the Thrillers, Mystery & Suspense giveaway!
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If you want something suspenseful that will keep you on the edge of your seat, check out this giveaway for a variety of ebooks with a mystery or thriller edge!
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(Note: This giveaway is hosted through Book Funnel. Authors will usually ask for your email address, and in many cases, the author will collect these addresses for their newsletters.)
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I hope you find a good book to read. 🙂
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A cover for Melange Books. For this cover, we wanted the cover to resemble the other books in the series, Night of the Hunter, Demon Hunter, and Hunter in the Darkness. Ultimately, I played with having a brighter background lighting (the sunset) in this one compared to the storm-based backgrounds of the previous colors. We kept the lighting on the model fairly consistent with the others. Also, I had to change the position of the ruins to have it better fit the positioning of the model. Per usual, the character is a composite image in order to create a more accurate rendition.
This is the result:
Stock images from DepositPhotos:
https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photo-abstract-smoke-moves-black-background-image48826804 – fog
https://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photos-dark-ominous-rain-clouds-lightning-image18357018 – lightning sky
http://depositphotos.com/50429945/stock-photo-beautiful-fiery-orange-and-purple.html – sunset sky
https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photos-capital-fortress-kingdom-urartu-van-turkey-image22014223 – castle ruins
http://depositphotos.com/19531251/stock-photo-handsome-man-pointing-with-gun.html – man body
http://depositphotos.com/39716297/stock-photo-knight-and-princess-love-each.html – head
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I based the style of this cover on the Matt Helm and Travis McGee series per the author’s request. While I still tried to modernize it, I applied several illustrative effects to the pictures using photoshop filters and layer styles. Originally I looked on Dreamstime and Shutterstock for stock photos that fit the main character of the novel, but they weren’t hitting the mark, so the author sent me a picture of his own (that he was free to use), as an example. I liked the look and asked if I could try working that photo into the design of the cover, and this is the result:
Photo of the man on the motorcycle provided by the author. Other stock images are my own.
I also formatted both the print and ebook editions of the book. For the ebook edition, I decided to use the silhouette of the man on the motorcycle as a break between section (whereas the print edition has extra line space between sections, and uses the silhouette as part of the chapter title). Since I wanted to try matching the title font to the chapters, I created all the chapter titles as images and used those in place of the typed titles in the ebook. However, the current previewer for Kindle wouldn’t render a transparent GIF properly in the iPad/iPhone option (rendered them as black, illegible boxes), so I created them as JPGs. They might look a tad bit funny if on a background color other than white (such as cream), but at least all the main devices should be able to read them. I plan testing a PNG file for transparency on a future project, but I wanted to make sure that the current file will be readable for everyone until I can test the file formats separately.
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A cover for Melange Books. For this cover we wanted a dark, sinister tone, and the author asked for the demon-like creatures to be staring out of the darkness. To achieve the appearance of the demon, I used a base image to start with, then used various layers in Photoshop to apply the red glow, which I then smudged and liquefied to match the model’s facial features.
Since the author said the main character is supposed to be a reincarnation of the main character from his other books, I used the same model, but with a different hairstyle.
This is the result:
Stock images from Dreamstime:
http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photo-abstract-fog-smoke-background-image69643118 – fog
http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photo-dangerous-man-gun-sunglasses-standing-abandoned-house-image65411957 – black shirt
http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photo-businessman-gun-white-image47821012 – aimed gun
Head image from Dollar Photo Club
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This is a cover for Melange Books. For this cover, the author wanted something that showed a cabin in a snowy region and kept with the dark mood of the story. They had already found an image that they felt worked well, so I was able to find a similar one from the stock site we normally use in order to create the cover.
My first attempt at a proof for this cover included silhouettes of the characters, but it didn’t convey the right mood. So I went a more simple route, using the mysterious, dark purple color as the base of the cover, with a narrow focus on the cabin in question. I also changed my initial font to something a bit more bold.
This is the result:
Stock image from Dollar Photo Club:
https://www.dollarphotoclub.com/70616736 – cabin
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This is a cover I edited for Barking Rain Press. In this case, they already had the main image they wanted, and they had the cool text placement in the cross hairs. However, they wanted me to do the final touches and adjust the sizing and such. So, after a bit of playing around with effects, I ended up playing the the motion blur and radial blur filters to add a sense of movement and disorientation. I also played with blurring and retouching the background so our main focus would be on the woman, and I played with the overall lighting. This is the end result. 🙂
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Stephanie Flint - Author and Artist 