December News

Dec 02, 2024

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, or a great week if Thanksgiving isn’t a thing where you are. December here in Minnesota has rolled in with frigid temperatures. No snow yet, just bare trees and nightfall arriving early.

Book Cover Update

My thanks to everyone who voted last month on the two options for the new cover of All the Whys of Delilah’s Demise. I decided to go with #2, which ended up with a slight lead over #1. We did, however, incorporate elements of #1 into #2, by tweaking the structure and look of the eye. (Incidentally, I’ve always wanted an eye on the cover, but not a horror-style, disturbing one. I think this one strikes that balance just right!)

Drumroll, please… The final cover! The designers at Miblart knocked this one out of the park.

I’m in the process of uploading the new cover for the ebook on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Google Play, at the bottom of this email, and wherever else the cover makes an appearance. The print book will take a a little longer, as it requires waiting for a test copy to arrive in the mail.

To celebrate the new cover, I’m putting the book on sale for $0.99 across all retailers until the end of the year. If you haven’t read it yet and are in the mood for a dystopian murder mystery, now is a great time to pick it up! The full list of retailers can be found here: All the Whys of Delilah's Demise.

What Have I Been Reading?

Benjamin Stevenson’s Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect. This classic-style mystery takes place on the Ghan, a passenger train that crosses central Australia in a 1,850-mile journey, sort of like an Australian version of the Orient Express. This is the second book in the series and it’s just as witty and entertaining as the first one.

Packing for Mars by Mary Roach. Nonfiction. This was written in 2010 and focuses on the pre-Space-X era, but if you’re interested in the history of space exploration, it’s well worth a read. Funny, candid, and entertaining.

Social Media Update

Not counting this newsletter and the Monday evening writers’ chat on Mastodon, I’ve been taking a brief social media break. Five stars, would recommend. I’ll jump back in after New Year’s, but for now it makes for a quieter world, at least temporarily, and we could all use some of that.

Thanks for reading,

Neve