Revealing the Cover for My Novel!

Oh my gosh, I am so stinking excited that I cannot contain myself! Today on my author site I am revealing the cover for my novel Awake: A Fairytale. I would really love if you could head on over and check it out!

I'm kind of bummed to have missed out on the Sew, Mama, Sew Giveaway Day - but come on guys, it's a real book! I promise to not miss out next time (May, right?!?!)

Support Indie Film - Old Man Cabbage

My friend Raymond is totally awesome. He's funny, smart, talented, and the greatest friend ever. I have literally run through the streets of Los Angeles with Raymond while holding dozens of purple roses and a bridal runner, ah good times.

He's also super cool. He's a puppeteer (yes, I know someone whose job title has puppet in it!), and a video director. He's travelled all around the US and lived in Iceland. Really. Iceland.

I'm pretty sure Ray is an artistic genius. Don't believe me? Check out this amazing video of him talking about his new project - a long form narrative music video.

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The awesome thing about independent art, and independent film, is that it's free from the constraints of big Hollywood. I'm not entirely sure that whoever green-lit Smurfs would see the artistic merit in something like Old Man Cabbage. But then, they green-lit Smurfs . . .

The problem with independent art and film is that, unlike big budget crap like Mission Impossible 4 (yes, they're making a fourth . . . also, I didn't want to appear to be unfairly targeting Smurfs, but really people stopping messing with my childhood), it needs to be supported by it's fans monetarily, sometimes before it even comes out.

Raymond and crew are fundraising to complete Old Man Cabbage. If you want to support amazing art I would be forever grateful if you would make a donation. Pledges start at just $5 and you get awesome stuff in return. Just think you could be a patron of the arts! Where would art be without patrons? Even Shakespeare had them!

So to sum up:

Raymond is awesome, you should love him like I do.

Raymond's art is fabulous, it is amazing and beautiful!

Smurfs is bad! Mission Impossible 4 is also bad!

You should help support the Old Man Cabbage video and receive awesome goodies in return!

I came across something odd a week or so ago while researching possible novel titles. These two books have similar titles and eerily similar covers.

I know nothing about these novels other than that the first one was an adult novel (paperback released in 2005, hardcover with a different picture released in 2004) and the second is a YA dystopian fantasy released this year. If you're interested in finding out more info about either, you can click the cover picture to go to their Amazon listing.

Crazy, huh? So, do you think book publishers of Awaken hadn't ever seen the cover of Awake? I'd hate to think that they had and went with the design anyway, but it's weird to thing that they didn't spend the same 30 seconds searching on Amazon as I did.