Mr. Bellott was kind enough to allow me to use the image for the cover. Once he sent me the jpeg copy, I played around with it in Photoshop and created the final version:
My name is Sheryl
Ilene Newcomb. And yes, my initials are S.I.N. A funny little piece of
whimsical humor my parents found amusing when I arrived. Mom and Dad were two
high school sweethearts who adored their guns, their beer, and their
self-appointed titles of King and Queen of the Rebellious Rednecks. The day I
was born, they didn’t think anyone in the town would have the mental acuity to
put two and two together to discover their little inside joke. Shame on the
pathetic excuses who called themselves teachers in this dreary city because Mom
and Dad had been right: no one caught on to their little attempt at humor.
Then, it turned out to
be true. Looking back with wiser eyes now, my family and I concluded that the
events leading up to my transformation started the summer I turned nine. But
the day we realized there was a problem, and no turning back, was a week before
I started my senior year at Junction City High. The day the fangs and claws
appeared and the monster inside of me emerged. When mutilated corpses appeared
near a pile of brush down by Caney Creek, everything changed.
That day I
changed—forever—because evil woke up and growled, its ominous rumblings heard
by every living thing in Locasia County, Mississippi.
The first chapter of The Magnolia Series - Book
One: Blood Ties, is also included at the end of Growl. I am very excited about this
trilogy, penned with my mother, Lillian Hansen.
3 comments:
Cool looking covers!
Ashley, I heard a rumbling in that introduction ... a low-down-frighten-menace of a rumble and it draws me into your story. Love those covers as well and love what you have done with that photograph. Big congrats and big sales to you :)
Good morning, Ashley! Looks like your covers are big hits!
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