Photo of me just after opening the cover art email for THE DARKEST LULLABY Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to gaze at the old-fashioned stroller and the eerie woods surrounding it some more. And thank you to my agent Louise Fury for selling it. You’re three-for-three! Thank you also to Don D’Auria for acquiring this novel. The second was for HOUSE OF SKIN, which I’ll start talking about a lot next week (ebook launching on June 5th!!!!!): This cover, by the way, is the third one Angela has done for my novels.
She obviously liked it, which was made even clearer when she stared at it for a full twelve seconds before turning back to Elizabeth Perkins and Kevin Nealon. Then I scurried to the bedroom (where my wife was watching Weeds) and showed my wife the cover. Then my lips formed a goofy half-grin that I held for a good seven minutes. When I first received this cover-which by the way is for my third novel THE DARKEST LULLABY, due out in early 2013 from Samhain Horror-my first reaction was a rapid intake of breath.
I don’t know your opinion on the above artwork, but I can tell you mine. Her horror covers…well, they look something like this: But her horror covers include no smoldering gazes or swooning housewives sandwiched between power lifters. Sure, some of her covers feature scantily clad people (after all, Samhain does publish a bunch of romance). There’s a cover artist over at Samhain Publishing named Angela Waters. However, I do have something pretty cool to show you. Okay, now that I’ve gotten the false enthusiasm out of the way-the work is piled about shoulder-high right now papers to grade, my fourth novel to finish and edit, taking care of my children, who I last saw playing near that abandoned toxic waste site-I’ll stop sounding like a corporate manager trying to drum up employee enthusiasm on a Monday morning.
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