Butterfly Swords is up on NetGalley

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Which means people are reading it. *swoons*

Actually, it’s pretty darn cool. I didn’t know much about NetGalley before, but apparently it’s the best thing since sliced bread for reviewers. It allows reviewers, librarians, journalists and other professional readers to request digital galleys directly from the publisher.

Butterfly Swords on NetGalley

50 more days! Let it begin, let it begin….!

The Cover for The Taming of Mei Lin

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The cover for THE TAMING OF MEI LIN (excerpt), my September Undone release is here! First of all it’s gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. The colors are beautiful and the backdrop is sweeping.

Let the cover kibitz begin:

  • I think the hero looks a bit like Daniel Dae Kim from Lost, don’t you? I do love a nice strong jawline.

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  • Time period: the clothing and hair isn’t Tang Dynasty. They had to take some liberties with that. The Undones are digitally published and so they create the covers from the Harlequin art bank, which leads me to the best part of the cover…
  • The heroine and hero may look very familiar because they also graced the cover of my favorite Harlequin Blaze, THE CONCUBINE by Jade Lee. Perhaps her lovers had met before in a previous life hundreds of years earlier in the Tang Dynasty? They were simply fated to meet again and fall in love eternally…

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Cover models get reused all the time. I’m just tickled pink that Jade’s models reappear on my cover. I’ll always associate them with THE CONCUBINE, which is sitting proudly on my keeper shelf.