Can a Cover Sell a Novel?
Feeling
guilty about writing a blog with so few facts, I surfed the WEB for information
on “choosing a cover for a book.” I found blogs by authors showing readers two
to five choices of covers for upcoming books and collecting votes for which
cover was best. There were quite a few ads by professional cover designers who
didn’t seem to want to admit their secrets. Nothing very interesting or new.
Billie
Johnson, my publisher at Oak Tree Press, gave the most useful advice on
selecting a cover photo. She called the picture we selected “a real grabber.” I
hope this blog encourages you grab for attention when you select your next
cover.
Blurb: In Ignore
the Pain, Sara Almquist couldn’t say no when invited to be the
epidemiologist on a public health mission to assess children’s health in
Bolivia. Soon someone from her past in New Mexico is chasing her through the
Witches’ Market of La Paz and trying to trap her at the silver mines of Potosí.
Unfortunately, she can’t trust her new colleagues, especially the unsavory Xave
Zack, because any one of them might be under the control of the coca industry
in Bolivia.
Ignore the Pain is the third novel in a series
that tracks the adventures of epidemiologist Sara Almquist and her more
reserved sister – physician Linda Almquist. In the suspense novel Coming
Flu, Sara identifies a drug kingpin trapped in a quarantined community
, while tracking the spread of the deadly Philippine flu. In the medical
mystery Murder: A New Way to Lose Weight, Linda Almquist must discover
whether the killer is an ambitious young “diet doctor” or old-timers with
buried secrets about the medical school.
Ignore the Pain: http://www.amazon.com/Ignore-Pain-J-L-Greger/dp/1610091310/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1385498311&sr=1-1&keywords=Ignore+the+Pain
Murder:
A New Way to Lose Weight: http://www.amazon.com/Murder-New-Lose-Weight-ebook/dp/B00DFCC3IM/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1372715439&sr=1-1&keywords=Murder%3A+A+New+Way+to+Lose+Weight
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