I’ve been working with my friend and graphic designer Scarlett Rugers who designs fantastic covers, and talked to her about what I wanted. After a little back and forth about ideas, she came up with this:

She’s done a full cover for the print version of the book as well, and I couldn’t be more pleased.

The best thing about working with Scarlett has been her patience. To be honest, I started working with her and didn’t know what I wanted. With her questionnaires and our conversations, she created a cover that not only reflects the story but the themes within the story.

With Echo Falls finally settled with a great cover, I am finally turning my concentration fully over to the next installment: Fading Echoes…

*drumroll*

Isn’t it lovely? Swoon.

Scarlett is still running the deal, just in case any authors see this and are interested…

Last year, Darcia Helle, Stacy Juba, and Maria Savva, launched the message board BestsellerBound

In one year, they accomplished so much that looking back on it, it’s quite astounding. Here are just a few of the joint projects/successes that show what an awesome place it is:

1. Towards the end of last year they launched the BsB Cutting Edge campaign to try to get Darcia Helle’s book The Cutting Edge to #1 in the Amazon kindle charts. They managed to get the book into the top 100, and were invited to The Indie Book Collective (IBC) to take part in a radio show talking about the campaign. The original campaign inspired IBC to run their own series of campaigns to get indie authors into the top 100. I have noticed other websites doing a similar thing. BestsellerBound was the first website to do this; it’s great to know that others are following our lead.

2. At the end of last year, Jason McIntyre and Maria Savva wrote the online novella, Cutting The Fat, which started off as an online exercise in writing a novel together as a team and ended up as a successful book, now available on kindle.

3. One of our top members, Joel Blaine Kirkpatrick, put together the BsB Annual Sample Anthologies, including chapters from members’ novels, and short stories. It’s free to download and is very popular across the globe, this helps to spread the word about our members’ books to all corners of the world

Here’s a link to a Youtube video, made by one of our multi-talented members Magnolia Belle, introducing the anthologies:

You Tube trailer

4. BsB has published two short story anthologies containing top quality fiction in all genres from our members. Both volumes are available to download free at Amazon on kindle. Both are very popular having entered the top 100 downloads!

Bestseller Bound Anthology
BestsellerBound Short Story Anthology Volume 2

5. They were a top 10 finisher in the Preditors and Editors poll 2010 for best writers’ discussion forum! (They came 4th! Not bad for a forum that had only been running for 2-3 months at that time!)

BestsellerBound continues to grow, with more members joining each month. We really do seem to attract the cream of the crop of indie authors.

We have also attracted quite a few readers of independent books, and they are valued members. We would love it if more readers would join, as our original intention was to create a forum where indie writers could chat to their readers. We’re a bit top-heavy with authors at the moment. This is not necessarily a bad thing as most authors also love reading. But if you’re just a reader and not a writer and wondered whether you could join, please do! We would love to welcome you.

As we are now celebrating our 1st Anniversary, we decided it would be nice to have a blog hop where we give away some prizes donated by our members.

What You Can Win

1. 1 coupon code for a free ebook copy of The Dream, Maria Savva’s latest novel, from Smashwords.

2. 1 coupon code from Smashwords for free ebook copy of any one title by Darcia Helle.

3. The Choice by Sydney S. Song from Smashwords giving free e-book coupon.

4. 1 coupon code from Smashwords for free ebook copy of Echo Falls by Jaime McDougall.

5. 1 coupon code from Smashwords for free ebook copy of any one title by Gareth Lewis.

6. 1 coupon code from Smashwords for free ebook copy of The Other Room by James Everington

7. 1 coupon code from Smashwords for free ebook copy of any one title by Susan Helene Gottfried

8. 1 coupon code from Smashwords for free ebook copy of Nexus Point by Jaleta Clegg

9. 1 coupon code from Smashwords for a free eBook copy of “2010 Hindsight: A Year of Personal Growth, In Spite of Myself,” by Sharon E. Cathcart

10. 1 coupon code from Smashwords for a free eBook copy of “Caraliza” and also “Breathing into Stone” by Joel Kirkpatrick

11. 1 free hardbound, signed copy of Joel’s secret 5th novel, shipped the week it is released.

The Rules

If you want the chance to enter to win a prize, there is more than one way to do so. Please leave a comment here and/or in one of the other blog posts relating to the competition. (Limit of one entry per blog post.) Here are the links:

*Maria Savva’s Announcement

*Cynthia Meyers-Hanson Announcement

*Jeleta Clegg Announcement

*Susan Helene Gottfried Announcement

*Darcia Helle

*Joel Blaine Kirkpatrick

These are adult books. Please know that by entering this contest, you are agreeing that you are 16 years old or older.

Deadline for entries is September 17th at midnight!

Winners will be picked at random on the 17th and announced at the participating blogs. Good luck!

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Bestseller Bound

Running from a nightmare stalking her every move, Phoebe Martin arrives in Echo Falls hoping she has finally found a safe place to stop. But trouble has a way of catching up and soon the signs are there.

After a vicious attack in an alley, policeman Aidan O’Bryan is left with Phoebe as his only path to understanding why the Echo Falls werewolf pack – his pack – is being attacked. When another pack member is killed, Phoebe is forced to confront her past before she loses Aidan and everything she has come to love.

Love and duty become one as Aidan strives to prevent Phoebe from becoming the next victim. But with Phoebe just as determined to protect Aidan and her new home, secrets from her past threaten to tear them apart.

Will love give Phoebe the strength to trust Aidan and face her fears, or will her past destroy her future?

*Warning: Contains adult situations and language

Currently, you can buy the print book from CreateSpace. I will add new links as more places become available. The next thing on my to-do list is to format this for ebooks.

(If you click on it, it will take you to my tour page.)