Two Month Catch up!!

Hey guys! Ok Most of you know I'm a photographer in my other life and I've been super busy with holiday portraits. Anyhow, here are a few of the covers I've worked on in my online silence. Feel free to head over to my facebook fanpage to get more up to date information on my designs :o)


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Angelina & Louis rocking out to "Love is a Battlefield"

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I don't have a name for this piece yet, but I just love the somber peacefulness in it.

Westbound Awakening by Hildie McQueen

Cavalry captain John McClain finds himself on the wrong end of a shotgun when attempting to find his child. Heading west to find the mother of his son and the outlaw who shot him, John is forced to escort an enticing woman whose lifestyle goes against every one of his moral standards, yet she calls to every part of him.

Heading west to meet the dying father she never knew, and possibly starting a new life, Mae Hawkins didn’t expect the added complication of traveling with the one man she always loved. 

When they're joined along the road by a minister and his wife, things get beyond complicated for John and Mae who fake being married and awaken to the lesson that sometimes differences are more imagined than real in this unforgettable journey. 

http://www.desertbreezepublishing.com/

Follow The Reed Files on Facebook!!

With any new venture it's important to build a following and support. I've heard back from many authors, publishers, and artists that they love my images. I'm so grateful that they are being used because it allows me to do more of what I truly love...take photos. So I'm asking you to click on the image below and like the fan page for The Reed Files. But don't stop there!! Send it to your publishing friends and ask them to like the page too and check out the images on the website. Everything is rolling but I need your help to get more momentum. Thanks!!

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Above Suspicion by Melanie Atkins

NOPD Detective Jack Marsden is a volatile cop with no love for his ex-wife, but he didn’t kill her.  At least, he doesn’t think so, after waking up in her house to find her dead in the bathtub. He has no idea who murdered her or how he got there. The lab finds evidence against him, however, and he is indicted for her murder.  He tries to defend himself and becomes a pariah to everyone except his beautiful partner, Mikki Baker, who's known for her grit and determination. The higher ups love her.  Her jacket is filled with commendations.  Yet when she goes to bat for Jack, nobody backs her play.  She is forced to risk her career -- and her life -- to prove his innocence.

http://www.desertbreezepublishing.com/

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The Reed Files

Well as promised here is the link to my new stock site. There will be something for everyone. There is also a Clean gallery for christian and clean authors who don't want to wade thorough too much skin to get to images they need. I'm super excited to start this new avenue of creativity as well as work with some seriously talented models. Please check out the site and let me know what you think. Also like our fan page on Facebook.

fan page - https://www.facebook.com/TheReedFiles

site link - http://www.TheReedFiles.com

Check out this predesigned cover from Covers By Ramona. These images are awesome, and I'm not just saying that...lol.

Enhanced by Courtney Farrell

Michelle was born into the Institute’s eugenics program, where doctors breed people like livestock. One man decides which children grow up, and which disappear. Culls are dumped in the slum outside Institute walls, and those kids never come back. Michelle has survived every purge, and she’s about to win a luxurious life as a breeder. When her brother and her boyfriend are both mysteriously culled, despite their high scores, she goes over the wall to find them. Alone in the ghetto, she’s in trouble until handsome, streetwise Dillon stakes a claim to her. She is mortified, because the Enhanced think Norms are practically animals. But the doctor is using the missing boys in a twisted experiment, and she needs Dillon’s help to stop him. Michelle must rescue the boys, but a plague is spreading, the doctor is after her, and Dillon isn’t thrilled to help her find her lost boyfriend.

Crescent Moon Press

Sweet Deception by Nancy Kay

Ten years ago their lives took separate paths. Delilah sought a career in New York City; Kevin entered the stare police academy, but when Delilah Wyeth inherits Cocoa Treats Chocolate, the cool city advertising exec returns to their hometown and complicates the life of State Police Corporal Kevin McClain.

Lilah knows if she defies her smooth talking supervisor she may tumble off the precarious ladder she's worked so hard to climb. Her self-esteem and self-respect hang in the balance. The confrontation is put on hold though, when Lilah rushes home for her beloved grandmother's funeral and discovers she's inherited Gram's chocolate shop.

Kevin admires the cool, professional woman Lilah's become, but he misses the feisty girl he once knew and wants to know why fear lurks in her gorgeous eyes. Then Lilah's fear explodes into reality, and more than duty drives Kevin as he races to save her from her former boss's outraged rejection.

As Delilah fights for her life, her career choice becomes crystal clear, but can she convince Corporal McClain he deserves more in life than a badge and a gun?

http://www.desertbreezepublishing.com/

The Celtic God Who Loved Her by Trinity Blacio

Jade's life is complicated. Raising six children on her own isn't easy. Sex isn't even a word in her current vocabulary. That is until Dagda shows up, the phallic god in the flesh, in her home. When danger shoots out of the dark, Jade's new-found warrior vows to protect her

Dagda, Celtic Earth and Father God, leader of the Tuatha De Danann hasn't been in the human world for the past two hundred years, until his daughter shows up missing. Little does he know by finding his daughter he will also find his true mate the one that can handle his lustful ways and his temper.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Celtic-God-Loved-ebook/dp/B003UBCEXC/ref=pd_ybh_6

AMETHYST FLAMES by Trinity Blacio

Kayla Dunsmore has had her share of heartache. Her husband turned out to be an abusive jerk, she survived cancer, and her family has been ripped from her life by a tragic accident. Now, she's just tired of fighting to survive and is ready for a stroke of good luck. Unfortunately, it's not to be. The last straw comes when, once again, the doctor tells her the grim news: the cancer is back. Not only is it back, but it will take a radical treatment for any hope of survival.

Zarth, an advisor to the goddess Freya, is by himself, the way he likes it. His kind, the Phooka, don't do well in numbers. But the moment he sees Kayla, Zarth doesn't want to be alone anymore. And that's a problem because, according to Freya, the only way to save her is to take her to the planet Amethyst Flames.

The planet is fraught with danger for Kayla, and to compound the issue, Freya tells them that Zarth must share Kayla with his brother Tirian.

Can Kayla handle the transition to a new planet and a new lifestyle? Can Zarth and Tirian learn to share? Or will they burn up in Amethyst Flames?

http://www.freyasbower.com/fantasy-c-8/amethyst-flames-p-248.html

Steampunk Custom Book Cover Photoshoot

Playing for Love by Angela Britnell

Available July 1, 2013

Kate Brooke, struggling with the aftermath of her husband's tragic death, her overbearing senator father and a decision she doesn't want to make, seizes on a temporary job as Finn Alexander's housekeeper in rural Cornwall. Against both their wills she is bewitched by the handsome cellist, beset with his own family issues and wary of trusting any woman. The secrets they struggle to keep push them apart, until their lives are threatened and they realize nothing is as important as the love they share and the life they can have together.

http://www.desertbreezepublishing.com/playing-for-love-epub/

Wait For Me by Cora Blu

www.corablu.com/blog

YA Shoot

I'm in the process of gathering costumes for a custom fantasy YA shoot. 4 kids, 4 costumes, armor, chainmail, swords, bows, arrows, and fun... oh my!! I can't wait to show you some of the outtakes. I am so blessed and lucky enough to say that I honestly love what I do, and most people can't wake up and say that.

Here's a sneak peek. The dress is going to be burgundy but either way this is one kick ass costume!!

Another day another goal...

Well this weekend I took one step closer to another goal. I started shooting images for my new stock site. **insert cheesy grin**. I got really sick of practically going blind looking through public stock houses only to find nothing. I got sick of wishing I could find the perfect image only to have to settle on something totally different. So to put my photography skills to use I decided to shoot my own stock (with the encouragement of some of my cover artist friends). Does that mean I won't be trolling the bigger stock houses to design covers, of course not, but it does mean that when I get a CAIS that asks for a cowgirl with red hair with blonde streaks sitting in a chair reading Moby Dick, I may be able to get that without banging my head against a wall looking through thousands of images. I will also be offering custom photo shoots at a very reasonable price.

The big reveal will come shortly with links and all!!

Flashback by Maria Hammarblad

Wounded by war and torture, Steve's life is a struggle to stay sane and not kill himself, and hooking up is the last thing on his mind. When it happens anyway he slowly adapts to a life filled with love and everyday chores, until the woman holding his heart is snatched away right in front of his eyes.     

http://www.desertbreezepublishing.com/

Wait For Me by Cora Blu

http://corablu.com/ Coming in June

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It's been a while since I posted new art. I love having free reign to just create something beautiful.

Across the Wide River by Tommie Lyn

Yonvusdi MacLachlainn loses his father and his home at the age of five. He is taken to his grandparents’ farm, where he is loved and cared for, but he never loses his longing to go home again.

As a young adult, he falls in love with Susanne Bertrand. They make a home together, and he is content. But tragedy strikes, and he is homeless once again.Will he ever have a home that cannot be taken away? 

Coming Soon!!!  www.TommieLyn.com

Coming soon from Freya's Bower

http://www.freyasbower.com

 http://www.freyasbower.com/contemporary-c-7/off-the-clock-p-285.html

NEW COVERS!!

Blood Bound by Melanie Atkins

By Any Other Name by Alana Lorens

Wanted: One Ghost by Loni Lynne

Stuck in ghostly limbo for 238 years, James Addison can't move on to an afterlife.  After being falsely accused of treason and executed, fate's cursed him to remain an earth-bound specter until he meets a historian sent to research his past.

Distrustful of fate, Dr. April Branford wants to be taken seriously, but her unique ability to divine history by touching objects seriously compromises her credibility. Her latest assignment?  James Addison, a legendary colonial ladies' man with a shadowy past.  Without much to go on, she doesn't hold out much hope to discover the man behind the legend until the day she accidentally touches him and brings him back to life.

With the help of family and ghosts from James’s past, they unravel the truth. But after falling in love and with time running out, it’s hard for April to believe in fate and a future where forever is now.

Crescent Moon Press

No Going Back by Pettie McCarty

Kellen Brand's inheritance turns out to be a whopper -- one dilapidated farm in West Virginia and one guardian angel. Since no sane woman would choose to live in Riverside, Kellen vows to sell her farm and quick. Her handsome neighbor Luke Kenyon must block the farm sale or risk exposure of his family's secrets.

While Kellen has one potential buyer, she faces a town full of objectors. Someone is trying to frighten her off, and Luke is forced to step in and rescue her more than once. Unfortunately, Kellen has a penchant for finding trouble. She stumbles onto a clandestine hazardous-waste-dumping operation next to her farm, and she prays Luke has one more rescue up his sleeve. It's her only hope of staying alive.

Unless her mother really did leave her a guardian angel…

http://www.desertbreezepublishing.com/no-going-back-epub/

The Wicked Wand

Bekka Ja Jarick, newly transformed to good lavender witch, yearns to find the wand she believes will complete her powers. Her best friend Kar urges her to be satisfied with the 22 magic rings Bekka has received with her new identity. Kar and Bekka both know the wand was hidden away long ago with good reason. It is known to be mischievous, wicked. Nevertheless, Bekka feels confident she can control it. They set off to find it, and do, much to Bekka’s peril. In the end, she discovers how lucky she is to have a best friend like Kar.

Wild Child Publishing

Tugger's Down

An evil entity summoned through a Ouija board killed Tucker's mother. Now it wants him.

Lacey and Porter were two college students who each thought their future was all mapped out. Until they met each other.

These three lives are about to collide. And what happens when they meet will change them forever.

Tommie Lyn Website

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Deep in the Valley

Niall MacLachlainn drinks to escape the bitterness borne of resentment toward his father. But instead of providing an escape, a bout of drunkenness ushers a nightmare into Niall’s life...a nightmare of torture at the hands of unscrupulous men who lust for the gold on Cherokee land. And the wounded soul of a boy becomes the scarred shell of a man.

When he finds love with Meli, he hopes to leave his past failures behind. But heartbreak finds Niall again through his infant son. 

Can he ever receive forgiveness for his failures? And will his father ever give him the approval he craves?

Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous years of the American Revolution, Deep in the Valley continues the saga of the Ailean MacLachlainn family, whose fortune and future is tied to the fate of the new nation.

                                               Tommie Lyn Website

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High On a Mountain

As a boy, Ailean MacLachlainn dreamed of living an adventurous life and longed to be a celebrated warrior of his clan. Until a shy smile and a glance from Mùirne's blue eyes turned his head and escalated his rivalry with Latharn into enmity and open conflict. 
 
When Ailean became a man, his boyhood dreams faded. Until Bonnie Prince Charlie came to reclaim his father's throne. The Jacobite loyalties of Ailean's clan chief involved the MacLachlainns in the uprising and set Ailean on a course toward a destiny of which he could never have dreamed. 
 
What happens when a man's dreams turn to dust? 
 
And when a man loses everything, does he have what it takes to go on?

Tommie Lyn Website

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Speak of the Devil

When falling in love and falling from grace collide…

High school junior Lily Tyler dies along with her two best friends in a car accident, but miraculously she comes back to life several minutes later. Unable to deal with her loss and her survivor's guilt, she moves to her dad's. While there trying to heal from this tragedy and come to terms with the event, she meets some people at her new school who are all too eager to help her. Struggling to fight her feelings for two of these strange new acquaintances, Luc and Mo, she finds out their true identities.

Lily must move on from the past, reconcile her feelings for Luc, and find a way to stop a divine war with the fallen angels, all while trying to pass the eleventh grade.

Crescent Moon Press

Shawna Romkey

Shawna interviewed me for her cover reveal on her website.
Please go take a look and comment :)
The Woman Behind The Cover: Speak of the Devil Cover Reveal

Desert Breeze Publishing