My New Cover for THE REVENGE OF EXCALIBUR

For anyone who follows my blog, which aren’t many, you know  I’m going through a transition. Back in 2014, I signed my first Excalibur book with Creativia Publishing. At that time, it was the best thing I did. I loved Creativia and their authors. That’s how I met Julie Northup and Marnie Cate. Hi ladies!

You can check out their books and websites HERE & HERE.

I eventually moved all my books under them. Even my short stories. Which was great. Back then. But, not now. The problem? Creativia was changing. They were adding more authors, getting bigger than I liked and it seemed all my books kept being put on FREE promotions. You can’t make any money from FREE!

I was getting dissatisfied. Truthfully? I became complacent. I left everything up to them. Why pay for promotion when I only received a small percentage? Which I’m not getting into now. I wasn’t the only one getting restless. So were Julie and Marnie.

Long story short. Yeah, like that can happen with writers. Julie approached me about starting our own publishing house. We named it Norns Triad Publications. Cool, huh?

http://nornstriad.com/

Since Creativia publishes under Amazon Select, which I hate, I had to give them a 90-day notice to unpublish my books. Which I did the 1^st of October. I only requested my short stories and my Excalibur books. So, on January 1^st, 2018, the rights would be returned to me, and I could publish them through Norns. WooHoo!

Toward that end, I started editing, again, The Secret of Excalibur, which will be, hopefully, published under Norns the first two weeks of 2018. The Revenge of Excalibur is to follow a week or two later. Which got me thinking about my book covers. I loved the cover for Revenge at the time, but now I’ve seen the same male character’s face everywhere.  He does have very striking features.  What did I expect from using stock photos? Sigh.  Funny thing?  I don’t normally like blond-haired guys.  I prefer them dark and broody.

Well, I wanted something unique and fresh. So, I contacted Jessica Tahbonemah with The Magic Quill Graphics. She did an AMAZING job. She knew just what I wanted, and now I have a cover that really fits the story. What do you think?

The downside to everything happening? It seems Creativia not only unpublished the books I requested, they also unpublished It Lives in the Basement and We Journey No More. That means, right now, I have no published books on Amazon. GRRR! Not what I was anticipating. Especially since Julie is in the process of moving the first of the year and she’s the one who does our formatting.

So, please bear with me. None of the links on my site to my books work. I will get them working as soon as we get them published by Norns Triad Publications. Thank you for your patience. Maybe when the transition has been completed, I’ll hold a giveaway. Any takers?