Happy Easter!

Happy Easter, Champions!

Yes, it’s a little early, but I imagine you’ll all be busy on the actual date, so I wanted to get my well-wishes out to all of you today. I hope you all have a wonderful Easter weekend! My family has a tradition of making and decorating cupcakes for Easter, which really means we pile roughly the cupcake’s thickness of frosting on top of it, so I’m gearing up for an extreme sugar high. I hope you also get a chance to enjoy some special Easter treats!

Usually I try to have an Easter gift for you guys…but sadly I totally failed on that this year. Myrrhlynn, however, pulled through for me! If you haven’t noticed, this week Enchanted (book 2 of King Arthurs) got a new cover. Ta-da!

New Covers, gotta love ’em!

Thanks, Myrrhlynn, for the beautiful new cover! It really is an awesome image–in particular I love the angle the cover/photo was taken from. (Truthfully I thought the previous cover was great, but it was really bothering her, and she has an artist soul, so Enchanted was getting a new cover regardless. 😉 )

As a side note, Sacrifice has had an amazing first month–it achieved the highest book rank I’ve ever snagged (#171) and all of your amazing and well-thought reviews have brought me a lot of joy and some great observations to take forward to new books. Thank you so much for being my Champions, and for going down this wild ride with me. I can’t wait for our next adventure! Until next time, have a Happy Easter!

Cover Art Reveal: Sacrifice

Cue the music, Champions, I have the cover art for Snow Queen book 2: Sacrifice!

Sacrifice is nearly ready to go! Editor #1 is doing a final read through to make sure everything is in tip top condition. (She’s been an absolute doll about the final read through. Thanks to some unexpected timeline hiccups with editing, she got it very late, but she’s squeezing it into her schedule anyway. Thank you Jeri!) If all goes well I should be able to get Sacrifice launched before 2/29, but I’ll let you all know the moment I have it going up.  Okay, details aside, let’s talk covers!

Sacrifice marks the first time a male character graces the cover of a Timeless Fairy Tale! If you haven’t guessed yet, the hooded character is none other than Colonel Farrin Graydim of the Chosen Army. Myrrhlynn (my cover artist) spent a long time choosing the picture to use for Farrin–she specifically wanted a male holding a sword–but she’s known since I released Heart of Ice that she wanted to put Farrin on book 2’s cover. Sacrifice, just like Heart of Ice, has a cover made of multiple layers. (The model, the snow, and the background.) Thankfully, cutting Farrin out was much easier than cutting out Rakel for Heart of Ice. Rakel’s dress cuffs were fur lined, so she had to cut out the fur and then re-fluff it. She’s been working on this over several weeks, so it’s been a lot of fun to see the cover taking shape piece by piece. Thanks for all your hard work, Myrrhlynn!

That’s all for today, Champions. Thank you for your patience, and thank you for reading!

Cover Reveal: Heart of Ice

I have another King Arthurs post in store for you, but I wanted to announce that starting today, The Snow Queen: Heart of Ice is available for pre-order! The Snow Queen tale will be told in two books–the first being Heart of Ice, and the second yet-to-be-named story which will be released in February 2016. I want to assure you all that while The Snow Queen takes place centuries before any of the Timeless Fairy Tales story, it is part of that story-world. You’ll recognize country names, and fans of Rumpelstiltskin will recognize landmarks and events that were foreshadowed. In the same way, because it’s so far in the past there are many differences. Loire doesn’t yet exist, the elves haven’t yet taken up residence in the white forests of Farset, and the biggest change….magic is feared. Okay, on to the cover!

Myrrhlynn did a beautiful job with this cover, especially considering she’s trying something a bit new by featuring a female model. Previously we’ve shied away from that–although recently Red Rope of Fate and The Little Selkie were both given new covers in a similar style–but Myrrhlynn did a fantastic job putting this cover together. The girl, the snow, and the forest are actually three separate layers she painted together. I’m especially grateful she went through the painstaking work of doing that (the fur caused her much anguish) because it makes the cover true to the story. Being that this is a retelling of The Snow Queen, including the snow was incredibly important, and when the story starts Rakel is living in a forest on a mountain.

The Snow Queen will be released December 17–that’s a Thursday–and as it’s a pre-order Amazon will be running the show, so you can expect your copy to pop up promptly at midnight/or 12:00 am that Thursday. Thanks for reading, Champions. I’ll talk to you again, tomorrow, about King Arthurs!