One more thing before I head to bed. I finally decided to expand Summer Magic by a few more poems and put out a print version, so I asked my cover designer, Nicki Forde, to come up with something that was the embodiment of a magical summer night. When I got to her house today, she had three covers for me to choose from. All of them were beautiful, but THIS one just stole my heart away! It’s everything I imagined, and more! Going to bed now, to dream of dark summer woods filled with fairy lights! *happy sigh*
Wow! Awesome cover!!
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I know! She’s SOOOOOO good!!! Now I’m going to have to write some extra special new poems to be WORTHY of this cover! 😀
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Loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee it! 🙂 Sleep tight! ❤
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I love it, too, Deb! Just what I wanted. I’m looking forward to adding some new poems to this book, and getting a print version out. I mostly want that for my own bookshelf, and for gifts to family and friends, but I wouldn’t mind selling a few, too! 😀 This cover could help me do that.
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Abaslutely! 🙂
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Dreamy and haunting cover. Does it capture what’s between the covers? ❤ 🙂
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I’d like to think so, and I’m going to add a few new poems before I’m done, and those will definitely have some magic in them, too. As is, the first half of the book is called Mac at Ten, and features poems like “Bruises” which I shared this week, about Mac’s adventures as a boy, camping on Wake-Robin Ridge with his dad every summer. The second half is more varied, and I might share another one from that part tomorrow. This tree looks like it’s home to some magic, doesn’t it? At the very least, fairies live there. I’m sure I’ll write about that! 🙂
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Brilliant. Love it, Marcia. Just right.Jx
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Thanks, Judith. I have to say, I agree. And the title font just blows me away… it’s all covered in fairy dust and sparkles, just like the little floating lights. Oh, so magic!
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That cover is beautiful. Just makes you want to open it up and see what’s inside! Good luck to you!
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Thank you, Marie! I’m so in love with it, I haven’t stopped smiling since yesterday! I can’t WAIT to spruce up the contents, and get that printed book in my hands. *happy sigh*
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Your cover designer did a great job with this one. Eye-catching! Good for you for choosing it. I am sure it fits the content behind it. Best of luck, Marcia, with this volume!
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Nicki is a Graphics Goddess! She always “gets” exactly what I’m asking for, and then makes it even better. I love her work (and HER!!!) so much I can’t even tell you! How lucky am I that we’ve been best friends since even before I started writing. In fact, she’s the main reason I finally DID. The world needs more Nicki Fordes!! (And she’s a gardening buddy, too. We have so much fun when we can find time to get together.)
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Such a beautiful cover, Marcia! Best of luck and many congratulations to you and to Nicky!
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Thank you, Olga. I’m really happy about this one. I love all the covers Nicki designs for me, but where the others might be haunting or mysterious or even a bit shivery, this one is just unabashedly PRETTY! 🙂
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Gorgeous cover.
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Thanks, Mary. I’m still oohing and aahing over it! 🙂
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Beautiful! 😊
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Thanks, Callum! And btw, why don’t you share an excerpt with us this week? If you want to send me something, along with cover photos, bio, and author photo, I’ll happily post it for you. Would love to have you take part, if you’ve got the time. 🙂
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I’m on it 😉
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Great news!! I’m looking forward to sharing it all over the place! 🙂
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Awesome! Have I mentioned before how much I love your poetry? I’ve shared your poems on SM, and other writers are just as impressed as I am! 🙂
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Yep, you’ve mentioned it. I think you might be my biggest poetry fan, and I love it! 🙂 So glad you’ve shared and that others like them, too. And you will be very happy with the finished updated book, I hope. I’m writing a few more things, specifically for the new and improved version. AND it’s going to include a poem Hunter Painter wrote for Willow Greene in Finding Hunter. (It’s actually NOT in the book, but it IS on the cover, written in his journal.) So, while Summer Magic will still be a slim volume–a chapbook, really–it will be expanded over the current version. AND it will have this splendiferous new cover! Life is good!!
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Reblogged this on The Community Storyboard.
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And also on my blog but as I couldn’t go via reblog I simply made a spotlight with it. Go, please, and check.
http://shadowspastmystery.blogspot.ro/2016/06/sharing-coverreveal-summermagic.html
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Thanks for both reblogs, Carmen. VERY much appreciated! ❤ 🙂
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