Right now I’m working on edits for Tides of Maryna’s Love (July release). Check out the cover:
Isn’t that awesome?I also did a video:
What do you think? Pretty good, yes?
My family is very close. Especially on my mom’s side. We all live around this area so we get together as often as we can. Each month the women in the family go to dinner just hang out and have fun. I LOVE it! This group is made up of: My grandmother Nanny, my mom, her three sisters, me, my aunt’s daughters (8). We’re a loud group who spend the entire hour (or two, or three) laughing and generally having a blast. Sometimes, since I’m the oldest (my nearest in age girl cousin is ten years younger than I am) I get together with just mom, aunts and Nanny. We have dinner and play cards.
Seem like I’m jumping track? Here’s the reason I mention this. One night I was sitting with my aunts and Nanny playing cards. Watching mom and her sisters, the way they interact, the way they live, laugh and love I had the idea for the Elemental Desires series.
So I fleshed out the idea, I played with the characters personalities and thus the series was born. They are very excited about this project. They know that each witch is based on one of them. They know that all four characters have a combination of their personalities; each witch has a stronger trait that is unique to each of my aunts and my mom. (Am I making sense?)
For the longest time I wouldn’t tell them which witch was which woman (hehehehehe). Eventually I told them if they could guess I’d confirm or deny. It took them three months but they finally got it right.
It’s been three years since this idea came to life and finally the books are being released! We celebrated big time. When the actual day of the release comes, there will be an even bigger party.
Another reason I mention our girls day out is that when we are together I bring along a page with book ideas, with book blurbs or tag lines and we comb through it. Their opinions are appreciated and noted. Sometimes they help, sometimes they don’t.
I have edits that are demanding my attention so I’ll be going now.
Remember you can always check in my daily progress by going to my blog http://donicacovey.blogspot.com or dropping by my website www.donicacovey.com.
See you all soon!
Hugz
Donica
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