Before, After and Everything In Between

I had the opportunity to do a little traveling this past weekend thanks to some book events I’d committed to back when I thought DEATH THREADS was launching this month. Since the release was pushed to May to accomodate a few changes to the cover (see below), the trip had some nice spots open for socializing. The fact that this particular trip had me visiting the St. Louis area (a.k.a. “home”), only meant that extra time was all the more fun.

The first full night I was there had me meeting up with two of my dearest friends over dinner (the first half) and hot cocoa (the second half). We talked. We laughed. We plotted (we’re all writers). And we just enjoyed being together for the first time in entirely too long. It was, essentially, a wonderful (albeit bittersweet) recharging for the old internal battery. And boy did I need a recharging as well as time with my friends…

Now, that the trip is over, I’m in complete work mode as I write my way toward deadline day for # 4 in the Sewing Circle Mystery Series. This book is tentatively titled, DEADLY NOTIONS, and is proving to be a lot of fun to write!

But writing is not all I’m up to at the moment. I’m also getting busy making plans for the May 4th launch of DEATH THREADS…and looking ahead to the Oct. 5th launch of PINNED FOR MURDER. If you have connections with a library or bookstore and would like to see me come to your area, let me know!!

If you follow my series (as I hope you do), I thought you might like to see how the cover for DEATH THREADS has  evolved…

This is version # 1. It’s cut off a little on the top and bottom simply because I’m an idiot and can’t figure out why it’s not loading the complete image. But it’s enough to give you the effect. However, if you click on it, you’ll see the whole thing!

And here is version # 2 (and, once again, it’s chopping off the top and bottom–I’m nothing if not consistent). As you can see, the changes from version # 1 to version # 2 are subtle, yet they sure make things POP, don’t they?? Huge kudos to the folks at Berkley for creating a great cover and then finding ways to make it even better!

Oh…and both versions really DO have my name on the cover…that’s just part of what got cut off on my uploading attempts.  If you click on each one, you’ll see the changes there, too. In version # 1, my  name was in red and it was split over the black and white tiles (making it harder to read). In this new version they’ve designed the tiles so the name fits on black and it’s the same color as the title. It’s very nicely done!

What do you think?

~Elizabeth

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