Links to additional stock photos

This is my "idea bank" that I'm offering to Tina and Celine to fuel our "creative process." If YOU see something that just makes you scream: "I must buy this vampire anthology right now!" Let us know, huh? Thanks!

stock photos #1

stock photos #2


stock photos #3

stock photos #4

An embrace

oooooo....what about this one?
the beauty of April Martinez is that she can change colors on this kind of stuff to suit our needs.

I like this one, quite a bit. Darr

Open Posting Today!

Hi

For comments on the cover art process, I've opened posting today to anyone. No Google Account needed. Play nice, please :)

Thank you,

Darragha :)

The cover art process

It's time for Tina Holland, Celine Chatillion and I to put our pretty heads together and come up with a plan for the cover art for "Of Flesh and Blood."

LSB uses the fabulous April Martinez and her stable of artists to produce our cover art. I am not a fan of poser covers, so I opt for "stock art" morphing to get the cover I envision. It's either use stock art or go for hand-drawn art, like from LW Perkins--which takes longer but can have amazing results. There's also the "anime-type" covers that Ann Cain does.

Tina, Celine and I like the two posted stock art photos. April will, of course, change the covers (hair color, background, etc.) to match our vision--so it's basically the pose we're looking at. Why these two?

1) because they have not been downloaded 1000 times
2) because I haven't seen them on other covers right off
3) because both are a bit different than the standard "nekkid male torso" cover

Now: here are our questions to you.

A) Which would catch you eye most?
B) Why? (example: I wouldn't buy a vampire erotica book with a female on the cover or other reason)

So, please...share your thoughts. They are valued!

Thanks,

Darragha

Completely off the cuff blurb for Polishing Saber, because I haven't *really* written said blurb yet. So, read away and please improve upon it as you will! Thanks!

Polishing Saber is not your average vampire tale. No Carpathians. No dark, brooding, deadly handsome men wanting to give you the ultimate hickey. Polishing Saber's vampire is one of the Old Ones--kin to the Hidden Folk in Icelandic mythology. Shape-shifters, too, they have protected their homeland for millennia from the insidious draugur--witches wearing dead man's trousers. The Necropants. Flayed from the skin of a corpse, steeped with magic runes and foul desires to control, usurp and bring unhealthy changes to Iceland, the Necropants have a will of their own. Including the need for their wearer to consume blood.

Necropants have been found. An Old One has awakened. Big business is planning the utter destruction of Iceland's pristine wilderness. And Saber Evangelista holds the key that all three forces wish to possess.

Saber, an African-American/Korean descent American woman with a kick-ass attitude, brains more powerful than Einstein's and a fabulous booty is all about the money. Transferred to Iceland as a computer consultant for AlumaTrends, Saber's poor choices from the past catch up with her when she finds herself in bed--literally and figuratively--with forces from both sides.

I invite Celine and Tina to post their blurbs! In a comment or email them to me and I'll post them here later tonight.