Make It Mondays: Sneak Peek

The day of making things.

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My show off thing today that I made, is the cover of my next book in the series "The Orchards of Marina Colleen". I know. First rule of self-publishing is hire a cover designer. Especially if you're not an artist. But I don't have money. And it's rude and the height of arrogance to ask artists to work for free. I wouldn't ask a plumber to work for free, or a mechanic, or a housekeeper, or a hit man. So I make my own covers and one day when I'm rich and famous enough to make people mad and still be okay, I'll hire a cover designer. And sure you can get those pre-packaged ones, but they're all fantasy or bodice rippers and that would not work for this series. There is no bodice ripping in my mall, and the only dragons and wands are sold at the toy store which I haven't even mentioned in any of my books yet. But yes, the toy store has a name. I'm just not telling you yet. If you look at the top of the page you can see the three other books in the series.

And here's a little bit of a blurb about it.

Carol is the owner of Ebenezer's, the Christmas Shop in the Orchards, and she has always loved Christmas... until this year.

With the recent loss of her best friend and mascot of the store, her beloved dog, Marley, and with the problems of being in an abusive marriage, Carol feels more like Scrooge than like the Mrs. Claus character she dons in December. She even has passed on writing and directing the annual Christmas play that the Orchard Theater Players perform, but when Gary, the glass blower hippy, decides to direct A Christmas Carol he gives Carol an offer she can't refuse, the role of Ebenezer Scrooge. And when a social worker convinces her to hire a foster kid who works her own bit of magic, Carol discovers that her loveless life, isn't so loveless after all. Ebenezer's is the fourth book in the series and you will reunite with favorite characters and meet some new ones. Now I have to get my act together and have this out soon.