When I first wrote A Happily Ever After of Her Own last summer, I was initially going to sell it to an epublisher. Although the editor liked it, she wanted more stories like it to make a single-author anthology. The problem? I didn’t have any other ideas similar to A Happily Ever After of Her Own.
Then this year, I saw that Quartet Press was going to start up, so I decided to send it there…except Quartet Press died without releasing a single title.
Still I wanted to do something with A Happily Ever After of Her Own. I liked the story, and I hated to have it just sit on my hard drive.
Hero Material suggested that I serialize it and give the last seven or so chapters to my newsletter subscribers only. I decided that was a pretty cool idea. I sometimes sign up for newsletters to enter contests, but I really like to get free reads.
So I pinged Agent to get her opinion, and she thought it was a great idea. W00t.
The next step? Making a cover graphic for the story. The problem? I’m a horrible designer.
On Tuesday September 29, I’ll talk about how Tara O’Shea and I got together to make the cover for A Happily Ever After of Her Own.
Feel free to leave me questions and/or comments. I’ll answer them here or if they require a long answer, I’ll turn it into a post. 
PSA: The first two chapters are free, but the rest are available to newsletter subscribers only. Sign up now.
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Hi Nadia, mobile error. anyway, did it cost loads for Tara to designed the cover?
by Dionne September 25th, 2009 at 9:20 amDionne,
No, actually not really. It was surprisingly affordable, although my idea of affordable may not be what others think is affordable. But based on how fast I wanted the cover done and so on, I thought it was very reasonable.
I recommend Tara highly.
by Nadia Lee September 25th, 2009 at 9:25 amheyyy! Just dropping by to say I love your book cover. Seriously it’s better than a lot of them I see on the bookshelves. . .I want to touch it! lmao
by Ashlee from Absolute September 25th, 2009 at 10:14 amHi Ashlee,
Good to see you.
Isn’t that cover pretty? Diana (Fox) helped me get it. I’ll post about that next week if you’d like to read about it. 
by Nadia Lee September 25th, 2009 at 10:39 amHey, what a cool idea!
by Jennifer Shirk September 25th, 2009 at 6:30 pm