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Orion’s Gift by Anneli Purchase

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New Cover Reveal

Canadian author Anneli Purchase explains her reasons for giving this excellent story a cover facelift.

I had a good photo of a Baja beach for my original cover of Orion’s Gift, but somehow the romance was missing. An enticing beach is all very nice, but if you have no one to share it with, it doesn’t leave room for more than solitude. Orion’s Gift is not about solitude. It’s about old love gone bad and new love too hot to handle.

Designer Anita B. Carroll said the old cover made her think the book was a travel guide. That thought upset me, knowing the novel is full of romance and suspense. I needed to let potential readers know that Orion’s Gift is a love story with twists and turns that would keep them turning pages. Anita assured me she could help.

She suggested several stock photos for me to look at and then took my choice and turned it into something much more in tune with the storyline. She tweaked the photo and played with pleasing fonts. I love the cover she came up with.

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Sylvia, our California girl, is walking away (from her old life), but she looks enticing enough for Kevin, her new love interest, to follow her. Actually, he did say he’d follow her anywhere—and he does.

But will it be enough? Does our California girl trust him? Can she ever trust anyone again after what she’s been through? Can he convince her that they can make it together?

But neither of them know that characters from their old life are catching up with them, and their pursuers have less than noble intentions.

Orion’s Gift will keep you turning pages. Thanks to Anita B. Carroll’s design skills, you can now judge a book by its cover.

Author Bio: Anneli Purchase has moreAnneli Purchase hobbies and projects than she can pursue in one lifetime, but of them all, writing takes priority. Traveling, camping, fishing, gardening, mushroom picking, and birdwatching are her preferred pastimes when she is not writing. Anneli has lived on Vancouver Island, Canada, for most of her life. The island provides everything she needs for the activities she enjoys.

You can buy Orion’s Gift from

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Amazon.co.uk

Smashwords.com

To find out more about Anneli Purchase and her books visit –

Twitter: @anneli33

Website: http://www.anneli-purchase.com

I know book covers make a definite difference to me when I’m looking at picking up something new. Do you feel the same way?Does a book cover entice you to take a second look?

The Wind Weeps cover reveal!

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Author Anneli Purchase went shopping, Anneli Purchase found a designer she liked, and bought a new outfit. Now she has a new image. It’s not for her, but for her novel, The Wind Weeps.

Here’s Anneli herself to tell you more about this exciting change!

The Wind Weeps has so many tangible elements that I could have focused on any number of them for a cover image. The story involves boats, the BC coast, commercial fishing, handsome men, beautiful women, and the isolation of the coast. But my designer, Anita B. Carroll of http://race-point.com , suggested that since the book has so much emotion in it, why not go with a cover that reflects it.

Remember the terror Julia Roberts felt in the movie Sleeping with the Enemy? That’s the kind of terror Andrea feels about her husband, Robert. But in her case it isn’t so easy to escape him. He has taken her to live in a remote cabin on the coast, all communication unavailable to her.

We have love, anticipation, happiness, hope, desperation, indecision, ambivalence, frustration, fear and joy, just to name a few of the emotions found in The Wind Weeps.

Andrea once loved orchids, but Robert has turned them into a symbol of his control over her. The orchid on the cover seems to be weeping. The sky is blood red, the sea is dark and rough. And yet Andrea is determined to survive and get back to the man she wishes she had married, the one who has never stopped loving her.

For more than just a romance, why not click on the link to download The Wind Weeps. You won’t sleep until you finish it.

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Amazon.com

Or if you are in the UK:

Amazon.co.uk

For those with e-readers other than Kindle, go to Smashwords.com

AUTHOR BIO

Anneli Purchase is an author and freelance copy-editor. She writes for the Loveahappyending Lifestyle Magazine, which she also helps to edit. Anneli lives on her little acre of paradise on Vancouver Island with her husband and two spaniels. She has published three novels and is working on her fourth.