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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

When A MUSE Cover Makes Me Chuckle

Four years in the Making

When I began with 

Muse It Up Publishing, I hadn't a clue about the publishing world. March 29, 2010...That's when I got my very first contract for a book that would release on December 1, 2010 and take 5th place in under four weeks when the READERS voted in the 2010 Preditors and Editors Reader's poll.

My jaw hit the ground! An award in under a total of five weeks!  WOW!

We're entering our FIFTH year...and My God have I learned a lot.

I've learned the truth about covers and their power.

All day today I sat and scanned the entire catalog of books available via the MIU bookstores.

So to start MY tribute to what is MIU...(we OFFICIALLY)...opened on October 1, 2010 with a bang I want to praise the CA's. 


Four years, and for me, almost twenty published books later, we're about to celebrate the start of another year of surprises and damned good writing by damned good authors, with damned good covers to go with them by damned good Cover Artists.

It's been a very difficult few years of late for me. Most recently I've had to survive several operations on my spine.

Now I can still walk, most of the time...and I can still stand, often without wobbling, and I can sit with minimal pain shooting through me...I can still write, and cheer on my fellow authors...but most importantly I continue to grow in knowing what makes the best as an author, reader, and watcher of what is happening in the publishing world.

I am so doing what I

When I began I was thrilled to GET  my first cover...It proved to me I'd ARRIVED afters years of writing my heart out IN the metaphorical closet! 

Now I know more...for instance I know the best covers are those that make you stop and want to check out the teeny picture of the cover that caught your eye despite it being so small it really HAS to be powerful for you to even notice much about it.

It takes GREAT CA's to put that kind of power and so much emotion into thumbnails. 

Not everybody CAN do it, but Muse has some of the BEST CA's in the world.

Once I go into the book's link, I want the cover to still be powerful enough to make me want to learn about the story...and yes...buy it.

Good covers must speak to the world and make them want to check us, the authors out.

For this, my first pre-anniversary tribute to the OUT-OF-THIS-World COVERS BY THE MOST GIFTED, CA's in the business...and because of the events I outlined to explain why these past few years have been difficult

I chose for my first tour through the catalog covers those that would have thumbnails that could make me chuckle, titter, 

or 

laugh out loud and want to hit that book's link.

So let me share what to me, IS the most amusing of covers RIGHT now available at Muse It Up...oh and the link to the buy pages too.

Ebenezer___s_Loc_4fa2a7ee83bfe.jpg
Mama_Jo_Jo_s_Adv_505384d87a9fc.jpg
lovepotion_500
Billy_the_Bonsai_4f1f4e10e6e65.jpg
Twinkle_Lights_50bf4ae66de65.jpg

scatter333x500
pranksgiving_500
will-middle-name-trouble-333x500
San_Diego_or_Bus_51365d044da7b.jpg
diamond-from-the-roughage-medium
Dewi_and_the_See_5074af5828ed7.jpg
the-unwanted-christamas-guest-333x500
odin-cats-333x500
poisonpens333x500
Karmack_5198f2b5c6c6f.jpg
A_World_Made_New_51360494058e3.jpg
becauseofchickens333x500
beverlybronte333x500
333x5001

themallfairieswar333x500
The_Best_Bad_Dat_4ee3f550ebf2d.jpg
the-bridesmaid-wore-stains333x500
launching-sisters-to-witchcamp-333x500
maybeitsmagic_200x300
Julius_Caesar_Br_51b9c56576f3a.jpg

Coming Soon

SCATTER
Cover by: Celairen
Book: by Michele Shaw



Coming soon
Will, Middle Name, Trouble
Cover By: CK Volnek
Book by: Buffy Andrews

Coming Soon

Odin Cats
Cover by: CK Volnex
Book By: Sandra Cox

Coming Soon
The MAll Fairies:WAR
Cover By: Celairen
Book By: Conda V. Douglas

Coming Soon
A_World_Made_New_51360494058e3.jpg
A World Made New
Cover by: CK Volnek
Book By: Robbi Perna

Coming Soon

All Because of Chickens
Cover By: Marion SIpe
Book By: G.L. Miller

Available Now

Beverly Bronté, Space Chick
Cover By: Marion Sipe
Book By: James Hartley

Available Now!

Black Cats and Ballet Slippers
Cover By: Cora Craphics
Book By: Iva Valentine

Available Now!
Dewi_and_the_See_5074af5828ed7.jpg
Dewi and the Seeds of Doom
Cover By: Suzannah Safi
Book By: Maggie Lyons

Available Now

Diamonds From The Roughage
Cover By: Suzannah Safi
Book By: L.J. Holmes
    (Okay, I wrote this, but this isn't about me...it's about the power of the cover, and it DOES stand out as a thumbnail...thank you so much Suzi...but, yeah, the story IS funny too.

Available Now
Julius_Caesar_Br_51b9c56576f3a.jpg
Julius Caesar Brown and the Green Gas Mystery
Cover By: CK Volnek
Book By: Ace Hansen
(This book is available both in "e' and in print

Available Now
Karmack_5198f2b5c6c6f.jpg
Karmack
Cover By: CK Volnek
Book By: J.C. Whyte

Available Now

Launching Sisters To Witch Camp
Cover By:CK Volnek
Book By: LRS

Available Now

Maybe It's Magic
Cover By: Karen Phillips
Book By: K.L Pickett

Available Now

Poison Pens
Cover By: Celairen
Book By: Jolie Pethel

Coming Soon

Pranksgiving
Cover By: Winterheart
Book By: Elle Druskin

Available Now

Love Potion # 9.5
Cover By: Winterheart
Book By Kat Holmes

Available Now
San_Diego_or_Bus_51365d044da7b.jpg
San Diego Or Bust
Cover By: Suzannah Safi
Book By: Vicki Batman

Available Now
Seventh_Grade__A_51509c62093bc.jpg
Seventh Grade (alien) Hero
Cover by: CK Volnek
Book By: K.L. Pickett

Available Now
The_Best_Bad_Dat_4ee3f550ebf2d.jpg
The Best Bad Date
Cover By: Suzannah Safi
Book By:Addison James

Available now

The Bridesmais Wore Stains

Cover By: (Don't Know...Can Anyone Help?)
Book By: Conda A. Douglas

Available Now

The Ginseng Conspiracy
Cover By: Suzannah Safi
Book By: Susan Bernhardt

Available Now

The Unwanted Christmas Gift
Cover By: CK Volnek
Book By:Penny Estelle

Available Now
Billy_the_Bonsai_4f1f4e10e6e65.jpg
Billy, The Bonsai Bull

Cover By: Kaytalin Platt
Book By: Wendy Laharnar

Available Now
Twinkle_Lights_50bf4ae66de65.jpg
Twinkle Lights

Cover By: (another I Don't Knoq)
Book By:Vicki Batman

Available Now
Mama_Jo_Jo_s_Adv_505384d87a9fc.jpg
Mama Jo-Jo's Advice
Cover By: Nika Dixon
Book By:Thomas Briar

Available Now
Ebenezer___s_Loc_4fa2a7ee83bfe.jpg
Ebenezer's Locker

Cover By: Kaytalin Platt
Book By: Anne E. Johnson

There we have my first tribute to the Muse It Up Publishing House's SUPERIOR Artists.

Covers NEED to tug on some emotional cord...

This cord is humor, whimsy and giggles.

How'd I do?

For Future Postings...I intend to hit on the following emotions:

Covers that 

TAKE MY BREATH AWAY

Covers that are HAUNTING or 

MESMERIZE

Covers that are ETHEREAL


Covers that BRING ME CLOSE TO TEARS

Covers that SCARE THE BEJEEBURS OUT OF ME

Covers that MAKE ME WANT TO FLY TO THE STARS

Covers that MAKE ME DROOL

If you have any ideas, please leave a comment.
If you know the artist's that did the covers I could not find listed on that books Buy Page, please leave a comment so I can make the proper corrections...

The current score for the number of covers  by which artist so far...in THIS category only are

Celairen =3
CK Volnek=8
Marion Sipe=2
Cora Graphics=1
Karen Phillips=1
Kaytalin Platt=2
Suzannah Safi=5
Nika Dixon=1
Winterheart=2

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