Authorpreneur Magazine Issue 3 | Page 24

When I was picked up by Eternal Press in October of 2012, they redid the covers and since the first book was part of a series they wanted to work closely with me on all of them. Eternal Press works closely with their authors regardless, but when you don’ t have any idea what you want, they really do go the extra mile for you!

I wrote my first erotic novel A Beautiful Liar in April of 2012, my second erotic novel Killing the Desire in June of 2012 and had the original covers done by freelance graphic artists when I self published them.

I wanted all of my covers to be tasteful and not crass. With the Eternal Press’ covers, I got so much more. I got a story covering a story. I saw sales increase and have had more compliments than I can count.

Debra Jarvis

In 2003 I was asked to speak for an audience that required me to be a published author, so I put pen to paper( actually fingers to the keyboard) and wrote ABC of Feng Shui in about 6 weeks. I had been in the process of writing a Feng Shui book for about 2 years prior to this time and looking back I’ d say I’ d spent two years‘ sharpening the saw’ so that when I sat down in late 2003 my writing flowed. I choose to take my laptop and write in a cafe where I had people to wait on me and provide food, water and coffee while I tapped into my creativity.

I wanted a colourful cover that depicted the Bagua so came up with the design concept and had a girlfriend paint the image used on the cover and then sat with a local printer( and business mentor) to put the elements of the cover together to produce the image below. About 1000 copies were sold in the first 12 months which I was extremely happy with as the book was written for credibility rather than income. One of the comments that came in was from a Gladstone mother whose son commandeered the book telling Mummy that it was his, it says ABC on the cover.

I have to give credit to Amanda Kelsey, she did an amazing job on A Beautiful Liar. Dawn Dominique nailed Killing the Desire and is currently working on a stunning cover for Book Two of the Maggie West Series Maggie’ s Men due out in August.

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Fast forward to 2009 / 2010 and it was suggested to me my book didn’ t look like a Feng Shui book should, so I had the graphics redone to the second cover shown below. I did also update the content a little at this time. Less than 20 copies have been sold with this cover in over two years. I personally think it’ s because it’ s not as visually stimulating and it’ s easy to overlook. Have to also say I haven’ t been promoting as much having stepped back from accepting every speaking gig going to focus on consolidating other