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My dad was Irish and my mom was German and Swiss. For every other occasion, Mom was the person who went out to buy gifts and cards for the family, but for St. Patrick's Day, Daddy did the honors. This led to a favorite family story which has the enduring punchline, "Happy St. Patrick's Day ... from me and my wild Irish nose." I remember my dad and that story every year on this day and it never fails to make me smile. Just a few minutes ago I took a close-up selfie of my nose and sent it to my sister with that greeting.
But that's actually not what I intended to post about today. I've just come across a web post by the artist who created the cover for Curves for Days, and it's really interesting and informative! I knew Sourcebooks, my publisher, market-tests as much as possible for new books, including possible titles, blurbs, covers, etc.. In most cases I just hear about the market-test winner for each item, not the things it was up against. So it was fun today to happen across this website and get to see some of the covers that WEREN'T chosen for the book. The artist, Andressa Meissner of Brazil, does bold, lovely work and you/we can enjoy some of it here on her website. Please enjoy these Curves for Days cover art contenders, and happy St. Paddy's day from me and my wild Irish nose!
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Casablanca Books ... on Facebook. The text of their post: We're thrilled to share the cover for CURVES FOR DAYS by Laura Moher - author! On-sale August 22nd! https://srcbks.com/cfd_ebook Readers of Olivia Dade and Lucy Score will love this sexy Southern curvy girl romance. How is Rose Barnes supposed to build the home (and life) of her dreams when her big, burly contractor keeps scowling at her? Rose Barnes has got curves for days―and to Angus Drummond, the big, bearded contractor working on her new house, she's the perfect thorn in his side. Little does she know Angus is perturbed on a daily basis by his attraction to this cheery, smart-ass woman with her sunshiny enthusiasm, her kindness, and her beautiful body. Angus feels he has a debt to pay to the world and doesn't deserve love until he pays it. Best to keep his mind on his work and his hands to himself. But the more Rose sees of Angus's gruff, honorable thoughtfulness, and the more rusty laughter she surprises from him, the more she wants him too. As their unlikely friendship becomes love, antagonism turns to partnership, and Rose's house becomes a home. But Rose is keeping a secret that could blow up everything with Angus, and sure enough, it comes to light at the worst possible time... [Description of image: Photo of a book next to a cutting board on which flowers rest. The book cover has the title Curves for Days, by Laura Moher, and a blurb reading "Crazy entertaining--First rate storytelling--Made me laugh and touched my heart" by New York Times best-selling author Suzanne Brockmann. The cover image on the book is an illustration of a youngish fat white woman with curly dark hair and dark eyes. She's standing before a white picket fence and flowerbed against the backdrop of a rosy sky and she's looking back over her shoulder at the viewer.] Today was a big day in My Personal Author World. I got to see the finished cover design for Curves for Days ... and I got permission to show it to you! Just LOOK at her-- isn't Rosie beautiful? I don't know the name(s) of the wonderful artist(s) who designed and created this lovely cover, but I think it's gorgeous and I'm grateful from the bottom of my heart for all the thought and effort and talent they poured into it, in conjunction with others on "my" team at Sourcebooks. Please pardon my brevity-- I must swoon now. I joined Goodreads.
And I'm going to be posting reviews there of the books I read, and I'll try to link them here. I'm told authors should have Goodreads pages, and so although I'd been avoiding it, I finally caved. I've also been told that Goodreads authors shouldn't read reviews of their own books, though, so I'll have to find some way to resist that once my book is available for review. Besides joining for authorly purposes, though, it will be nice to have a place to organize my thoughts on what I read. I'm hoping that will stop all the authors and books and series from running together in my mind the way they currently do! It's embarrassing to belong to as many groups as I do where people ask for reading recommendations and I can remember the plot and the characters but none of the names! So. Do better, Laura. Anyway, here's my first Goodreads review: Laura Moher’s review of Ship Wrecked | Goodreads
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