I loved writing a high ranking female officer. You don’t see many in fiction that aren’t “men with boobs.”

They really did do a huge improvement with the next cover. Here’s a link.
http://the-borderlands.com/images/WarlordDaughter_TEST.jpg

Yes, I’d love to see more high ranking female officers. Real ones who are both feminine and strong and can do their jobs without being turned into mush during a crisis so the heroes can save them. Love the new cover too.

I don’t have the final yet. But I love it and the guy is hot. No tattoos, though! Here I have heroes in tattoos and can’t get any on the covers! It’s almost as if publishers have a set “language” in various genres, and that tattoos mean paranormal. Does that transfer over to readers? We look for a specific “type” of book based on the cover look? While not a bad cover, to me Moonstruck screams contemporary romance. They are still feeling out what to do with SFR. I think Bantam’s done well with Linnea Sinclair’s covers.

Didn’t someone mention tattoos + paranormals + covers = getting old? In which case, it’s a good thing Finn’s tattoos were covered up!

They really did do a huge improvement with the next cover. Here’s a link.
http://the-borderlands.com/images/WarlordDaughter_TEST.jpg

I don’t have the final yet. But I love it and the guy is hot. No tattoos, though! Here I have heroes in tattoos and can’t get any on the covers! It’s almost as if publishers have a set “language” in various genres, and that tattoos mean paranormal. Does that transfer over to readers? We look for a specific “type” of book based on the cover look? While not a bad cover, to me Moonstruck screams contemporary romance. They are still feeling out what to do with SFR. I think Bantam’s done well with Linnea Sinclair’s covers.

Brit is actually late 30s. Yeah, I know. But that’s in admiral years. :) And, yes, Kimberly, I agree with you on what you can’t say. We need more of those.

You know, the sensuality thing is so interesting. I thought it was a fairly hot book but nowhere near many that are out there, just somewhere in the middle. Not as much as Kimber maybe but definitely more than RT’s rating of “mild” i.e. “little to no sex.” This book? I was really surprised by that. I am curious how RT calculates their heat ratings. Anyway, it would make for an interesting topic.

And yes, Heather’s giving away a signed copy of Moonstruck on her fantastic website. I’ve been on deadline and haven’t had a chance to explore it completely but there’s so much there. She did an amazing job.

Thank you again. It is just wonderful to be mentioned here as a recced read.