Topic: Amber Eyes will be published soon

Amber Eyes will be published soon. In the published edition, I would like to acknowledge the support and patience of the following people whose comments were particularly valuable:

KHippolite
C.E. Jones
Nathan B. Childs
Don Chambers
R. M. Keegan
Sheriff Norm
cyeote
John Hamler

Lots of authors here were so kind to comment Amber Eyes during the last two years. I'm not saying that the comments of those not mentioned above were not valuable. All comments were important and I appreciate the time all the people dedicated to my novel. However, the comments of those indicated above were the most valuable of all and they were the people who followed me and stood by me until the very last chapter.

Kindly indicate whether you agree that I mention you. Also, if you wish to be mentioned using your TNBQ user name or if you wish to be mentioned using some other name, like a pen name under which you regularly publish or your even real name.

Kiss,

Gacela.

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Good news is always good to hear. Congratulations, Gacela!! If I had a crystal ball, I'm pretty sure I'd be able to predict that Amber Eyes will be a big hit. A YA novel that will be read by parents and grandparents, like me, alike.
Thanks for the tip of the hat. Nathan B. Childs works for me. I think I said this to you from the get-go, back when I first stumbled onto Amber Eyes, that you were a gifted storyteller. Now I wish you every success in your writing.
Are you self-publishing or did you find a publisher?

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Yaaaaayyy!! Congrats, Gacela!  smile  So exciting! And thanks so much for the mention! Please use my author name Lucy Crowe if you can.

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Congrats

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Let us know the book release date.  I owe you an Amazon review.

Congratulations!
Madison

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Madison

Sure! Hope around May  15.

Kiss,

Gacela

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Nathan

I will self publish. I won't go through the process  of finding an agent, and then a publisher, and all that stuff. Call me impatient, but it takes ice ages  only to get rejected, not based on the book's  quality but based on your query letter's quality, which makes absolutely no sense. I can only think the grand JK Rowling and the greatest MG and YA saga of our times got rejected not only once but several times, to lose faith in agents and publishers and their ability to sniff a best seller.

Kiss,

Gacela

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8 Reply by ronald quark (edited by ronald quark 2015-04-21 07:24:38)

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Mariana Reuter wrote:

not based on the book's  quality but based on your query letter's quality

Actually, an agent or publisher's decision to look at a manuscript is based on the query letter; their decision to publish your book is most definitely based on the book itself.

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9 Reply by Mariana Reuter (edited by Mariana Reuter 2015-04-29 14:45:06)

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Dears:

Those who were kind to read my story, would you vote for a cover?



Kiss

Gacela

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Cover 1 

Cover1

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Cover 2

http://i59.tinypic.com/29f74sw.jpg

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Cover 3

http://i58.tinypic.com/244nmnk.jpg

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I didn't read your book, but I definitely vote for Number 2. Number 1 is cut off, and Number three is black-and-white, avoiding the color in the title.

Are you going to start a Headtalker campaign or its ilk for your novel? I'm reciprocating, so let me know.

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Jack:

I've just discovered Headtalker yesterday upon supporting you. How does it works exactly?

Kiss

Gacela.

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Go to Headtalker.com and find out how to do it. I did it, thinking my publisher had set it up, when she actually set up a campaign for my other book she published, Get the Picture?.  BTW, if you could be a dear again and support that one, I'll be doubly in your debt. https://headtalker.com/campaigns/get-the-picture/  Anyway, it's free and easy to do. If I can do it, anybody can!

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I  also vote for two because of the color vs. black-and-white issue and the fact that number one seems cut off. R.M.

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17 Reply by njc

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I didn't read your story, but ... the second cover is the best image.  I think it would be stronger if you cropped about half of the hood off the top and enough off the right to keep the ratio.

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Thanks, Kenny. Excellent ideas! I loved the glasses. They're an important part of the story, And a good place where to write the title on dark background.

Kiss

Gacela

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#2 is the best out of the ones as presented, but if you colored the eyes on the B&W one, I think I'd like that one a lot. I'd also touch up the eyes on the color one, if you choose that. The look more gray than amber to me. In the story, her eyes have a mesmerizing quality. I'd try to get that to come through on the cover.

And I liked Kenny's suggestion about the sunglasses.

Cheers,
Don

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I don't like the sunglasses, but then I didn't read the story. In Number 2, the one I chose, I find the hands distracting and would prefer if they were cropped out of the frame, leaving just her head and shoulder in the picture. Or, for needed space issues, you could have her arms not crossed, but at her side, with the hands out of the frame. And bring her head lower in the picture so the eyes are more central and not competing so much with the background.

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Well, the sun glasses play an important role in the story. Kenny immediately understood they need to be on the cover, which I overlooked.

Kiss

Gacela

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Hi Gacela! I like Kenny's version best! The font is much more eye catching and the sunglasses are a great added touch.

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I think in each which has a house in the background, the house should be slightly blurred. That would make the image look natural.

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Thanks Ronald, good point. It will look like she was actually standing in front of the four and the camera lens focused on her and blurred the background.

Kiss

Gacela

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I dunno why, Gacela, but for some odd reason your book cover reminded me of the first Black Sabbath album cover. Probably because I've spent hours listening to that album, stoned, staring at the picture. You know the one... With the cloaked and hooded forest witch? Standing in front of an old English manor? It's very weird and ominous and all. Especially how the foliage is dying all around the witch and how she doesn't cast a reflection in the still water moat behind her. It looks like a painting, but it's actually a photograph of a real person (NOT Ozzy Osbourne) and place.

Having said all that, apropos of nothing, I vote for number two. For pretty much the same reasons already stated by your peers.

Cheers

John

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