Cover Reveal and Sale!!!

To celebrate the three year anniversary of my first novel, Anathema, I refreshed the covers of my first six novels, the prequel novelette, and the compilation!!!

As always, Anathema, Sleepers, and The Initiate are free!!!! Oubliette, Severed, Afterlife, and The Sundering are on sale for 99 cents through March 22nd. Or you can buy all of them in one compilation, The Song of Eloh Saga for only $3.99 (this edition not available on the iBookstore). Purchase links here.

All 8 of the new covers were created by Steven Novak of Novak Illustration.

It's been a wild three years and I'm so happy the readers have traveled it with me!!!!

XoXo,

Megg

Win ALL of My Novels in Paperback

2014 is shaping up to be a very exciting year!!!

Not only is HIDDEN getting great reviews, but I've also embarked on a project that's really exciting!

As you may know, ANATHEMA, OUBLIETTE, SEVERED, and SLEEPERS have all been available in paperback at one time or another. I designed the interiors myself and, well, they were just okay. Graphic design isn't my thing.

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Now that I'm making a bit more, I can afford to spend some decent money on crafting my paperbacks by using interior designer, Ali Cross from Novel Ninjutsu. The covers will be created by Steven Novak of Novak Illustration.

I plan on releasing all of my novels in paperback form in 2014 - and one of you will win a signed set. In fact, I'll send you a new paperback probably every month as they become available!

If you want a chance to win, enter below. The only required entry is joining my newsletter list. If you're already on the list, no problem - you can still use that as an entry. It's not just for new subscribers, it's for ALL subscribers. :)

This will include HIDDEN, SHUCKED, ANATHEMA, OUBLIETTE, SEVERED, SLEEPERS, AFTERLIFE, THE SUNDERING. Hopefully HUNTED (the in-progress sequel to Hidden). Possibly THE INITIATE (it's just a short story). Perhaps HELL BENT HEAVEN SENT (I haven't decided on that one yet). This prize package is valued at well over $100!!!!

If you want to buy signed paperbacks, I'll give more info on that after the contest is over. <3

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Unfortunately, due to the cost of shipping, I can't extend this giveaway to my international friends. It breaks my heart, but....I do have an alternative contest for the UK fans!

My amazing friend over the pond, Charlie Finn, has this company called 3 Little Owls. She makes these adorable little custom key charms and she's made 5 Hidden key charms! And those can be won by anyone in the UK.

How cute is this? Hidden's cover along with stars, a dagger, an owl, and a dragon?!

I know some of you US people might really want one of these key charms, so feel free to contact Charlie about this. Shipping from the UK to the US can be costly, just like it can from the US to UK. :)

Enter to win the paperbacks through the first Rafflecopter and enter to win one of the key charms through the second Rafflecopter.



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Ever Feel Like You've Been Totally SHUCKED?

I've been working on SHUCKED  on and off for more than four years. I held off on finishing it because it didn't fit my author profile. It's always been my goal to be recognized as a fantasy author - and SHUCKED is the farthest thing from that.

But in January my hubby re-injured his back and our lives took a very difficult turn. Due to the medications he was on, he could no longer drive. Nor could he lift. And walking was a struggle. The pain was constant.

I tried to continue working on my fantasy novel, but my heart wasn't in it. Yet there was Tabitha, calling to me from the sidelines. I told her to go away. Her story wasn't part of my life right now. She wouldn't stop.

I gave in, throwing myself into Tabitha's world, one I'm very familiar with since I grew up on a farm. Walking with her through this story of self-discovery and learning to deal with circumstances beyond her control was very healing for me. In SHUCKED, Tabitha struggles through her environment just as I was doing with my hubby's injury. After major surgery, we're entering the brighter side of our experience. If you read SHUCKED, I think you'll find Tabitha does a great job of working her way through unexpected disaster too.

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Suburgatory meets Indiana Jones...on a farm

 Fifteen-year-old Tabitha has had the kind of life that would impress even the greatest adventurers. She's escaped a croc attack in the Amazon, walked the length of the Great Wall of China, and earned a black belt in taekwondo in Korea. She owes her worldly experience to her mother's career in

Cover design by Steven Novak

archaeology, but when her mother takes on a dangerous new assignment, Tabitha is devastated to learn she can't tag along.

Instead, she's forced to live on a midwestern farm with her grandparents where she'll have to attend a full year of public school. It's Tabitha's greatest nightmare, because despite all her adventures, she has no practical experience with the one thing that frightens her the most - other teenagers.

Her math teacher is her mom's old high school boyfriend, she can't tell the friendly girls from the mean ones, and she develops a major crush on a boy she knows she can't trust. And just when she thinks she'll never get the hang of this normal teenager thing, an attack brings the danger of her previous life right up to her midwestern porch. Who could have ever guessed getting totally shucked would bring her face-to-face with her most exciting adventure yet?

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Now for the fun stuff!

WINNERS!

Subscribers to my newsletter were able to enter a contest to win 1 of 15 ebooks of SHUCKED. The winners have all been contacted via email.  Congrats to:

Bonnie H. ~~~ Cathy P. ~~~ Sara D.
Dee S. ~~~ Jacquelyn L. ~~~ Kris A.
Lourdes S. ~~~ Kassandra F. ~~~ Yvonne W.
Lisa C. ~~~ Patrick M. ~~~ Lysette L.
Becky N. ~~~ Ruth J. ~~~ Pam. B.

Check out this awesome Facebook banner my friend Sharon Rosen made for SHUCKED:

And Chris Whigham of Derby City Social Media created these bookmarks for SHUCKED:

My newsletter subscribers got first crack at these bookmarks, but I have some left, so I'm opening it up to everyone else - internationally! If you want three bookmarks, please fill out this form (until supplies last):

(I will not save your addresses or share them or sell them.)

Cover Reveal ... Kinda ;)

If you're Facebook friend of mine, or a fan (I hate that word), or you just follow my public updates there, you may have seen something a little out of the ordinary.

I'm currently writing my next novel, Hidden. I did something I haven't done in three years - I actually sat down and plotted the book using the techniques of The Plot Whisperer. I have a notebook filled with notes, background story, character sketches, etc. I've got this one DOWN, baby. All I have to do is write (easy and fun) and edit (not easy, but still fun). It's like all cake from here.

I've already got a cover. I've had it for about a month. The incredible Steven Novak made it for me. I've been dying to share it, but it seems silly to share it when the novel isn't even fully written yet!

So I had this idea...this evil idea...to share my cover in pieces. lol. Cruel, I know. Only 5 friends have seen it in full and here's what they have to say:

"Oooooooohhhhhhhhhh! I LOVE it."

and

"I LOVE it!!! Very mysterious and dark and enticing."

and (my favorite)

"holy <bleeping> <bleep>

you're going to sell a <BLEEP>LOAD of books"

Here's how the cover reveal is going to work. Every time I hit a new word count goal, you get to see another part of the cover. I showed the upper left corner yesterday, just to kick the whole thing off. When I hit 10,000, you'll get the lower right corner, 20,000 is the upper right corner, 30,000 is the lower left corner, 40,000 is the right and left sides, 50,000 is the entire cover. Sounds like fun, right?

If you want to keep track, and help encourage me to keep writing, there's a word count meter on the top of the right sidebar of my blog. You'll know exactly where I'm at because I update it several times a day.

Here's the first reveal:

 

XoXo, Megg

 

The Next Big Thing

I was tagged by Susan Kaye Quinn to participate in The Next Big Thing. It's a series of questions that I'm supposed to answer, then I direct you to five of my favorite authors. I don't know who started it, or why, lol, but hey, why not?

So here goes!!!!

What is the title of your next book?

Well, I haven't announced that yet, but thanks for asking, Mystery-Person-Who-Started-This-Chain.

All I can say is that the title is hidden. You'll know what that means soon enough.

There's only one person that knows, and that's my cover designer Steven Novak. But he isn't telling because he knows I'd kick his arse if he did. ;)

Where did the idea come from for the book?

Well, crud, I wasn't ready to discuss that either. There was a day, not so long ago, when something happened. Something creepy, but ultimately cool. That's when I got the idea. You know, for the book whose title is hidden.

What genre does your book fall under?

Ah ha! A question I CAN answer. YA Fantasy. It's going to be another high fantasy like my other books. But it's not related to the world of the Song of Eloh Saga at all. Totally new. Completely different.

What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?

Gah. Another hard question. There will be a main character girl. And a supporting cast of characters both male and female. Possibly some animals. Maybe an owl or a dragon. Maybe something you've never heard of. I can tell you that I do not, under any circumstances, want Justin Bieber playing any roles in my movie.

Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?

Self-published. Why? I like getting a 70% royalty. If someone out there wants to offer me BIG MONEY from a traditional publisher, I'd rethink things. But, yeah, for now, I'm just little old me, self-publishing my little books (which are *this close* to hitting the 50,000 sold mark).

What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?

I really hate comparing my books to others. Let's just say that some of my favorite fantasy writers are Alison Goodman, Terry Goodkind, and Robert Jordan.

Who or what inspired you to write this book?

I live in a constant state of inspiration. I get new story ideas every day. It's mentally tiring, really. But for this story, it was that incident I didn't tell you about above. And this question is not going to trick me into telling you what I didn't tell you before!

What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?

This?

Now it's my turn to torture, I mean tag, five other writers. They're awesome. Visit them all! I don't know when/if they'll participate, but I have much <3 for them so you should visit them no matter what.

Angela Carlie
Karly Kirkpatrick
Kristina Springer
Matthew Merrick
Dennis Sharpe


  

New Covers!!!!!

Click here to enter to win Shari Brady's new book!!!!!

I'm the girl who gets bored and re-arranges the furniture. Or paints a room that doesn't need painting. Or organizes my closet just because.

But please don't think I took getting new covers for the Cloud Prophet Trilogy lightly. I didn't. I've been agonizing over this for weeks now, wondering what direction to go with them - or wondering if I should just leave them alone.

My problem is that while I can create entire worlds in my head, I'm terrible, awful, horrible at thinking up covers on my own. I can look at one that's already made and say, "Oooooh, pretty," but ask me to come up with a concept and my mouth will drop open. Drool will leak out. My eyes will go blank. It's not pleasant.

When I saw my friend RaShelle Workman's beautiful covers, I knew I needed to contact her artist - particularly when RaShelle told me the artist would hold my hand through the process. All I needed to do was tell him about the books and he would come up with the concept all on his own.

Enter Steven Novak, illustrator extraordinaire. He was everything RaShelle said he would be - and more. Within 48 hours, I had brand new covers for the entire trilogy and the trilogy combo edition. You can't imagine how excited I am.

Now I know there are people out there who love the original covers. I love them too. I still do! I just felt it was time for a change. I like change - I'm not afraid of it. For now, Robin Ludwig's designs will still grace my paperbacks.

Without further ado, here are the new ebook covers. I hope you love them as much as I do!!!!

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