Tuesday, May 26, 2020

"One Bad Apple" Cover Reveal

Feast your eyes:


My cover artist has done it again!  Could this cover be any more gorgeous?  I think not!  And it so totally screams "Snow White set in the Old West," doesn't it?  Plus a little hint of Hamlet in there, since One Bad Apple has a lot of Hamlet overtones.

What exactly is One Bad Apple about?  Well, it's about seven white orphans who are reluctantly allowed to join an all-black wagon train headed to Kansas.  The orphans just want to find their only remaining adult relative, a homesteading uncle.  But they get all mixed up with the people in charge of the wagon train: a minister, his daughter, and his wife, who is a healer.  One of the orphans dreams of being a doctor, and he hopes the healer will be able to teach him how to cure sick people.  But instead, he discovers she has a sinister plan to dispose of her husband and stepdaughter... and she intends to place the blame on this orphan.

One Bad Apple is set to release on July 28, and I will be calling for advance readers and setting up a blog tour in a few weeks, so keep a lookout for those posts!  Meanwhile, you can mark One Bad Apple as a "want to read" here on Goodreads.

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I'll leave you with this collection of my book and short story covers because I love how they look together:


8 comments:

  1. I SAID IT WOULD BE AWESOME, AND I WAS NOT DISAPPOINTED.

    *allllllllll the confetti*

    I can't wait to add this book to my shelf!!!

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    1. Aww, thanks, Katie! Yeah, I really love what my cover artist comes up with :-) All the confetti!

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  2. I look forward to reading this very much, as I hear excellent things about how downright AWFUL the villain is. Congratulations!

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    1. Thank you, Charity! Um, she's awful for a villain written by *me* anyway ;-)

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  3. That's very cool, Rachel! I look forward to reading it.
    My next book, Clamorous Harbingers, should be out in June.

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    1. Thank you, Stanley! Good luck with your own new release :-)

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  4. AGGHHHHHH IT'S BEAUTIFUL. I can't wait to read it.

    And in the meantime I can't wait to read Dancing and Doughnuts. I finally got my hands on Cloaked last month and gah it was gorgeous. Loved it SO MUCH.

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    1. Thank you, Megan! I love how evocative this cover is.

      And thank you for the kind words about Cloaked!!! I am so pleased you loved it :-) I hope you enjoy Dancing and Doughnuts too, when you get a chance at it!

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