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Jessie’s Song Awarded Bronze Medal

  By Eleni | September 2, 2013 - 13:36 | ,
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August has been a rewarding month for Visionary Fiction, first with Jodine Turner winning  Honorable Mention in the Global eBook Awards and now with my book, Jessie’s Song,  taking home the  bronze medal in the Readers’ Favorite Book Awards. My hope is that more visionary fiction authors win awards and bring recognition to this uplifting and thought provoking genre.

I’m pleased that Jessie’s Song has been well received, and my hope is for Unison to meet with similar success. I’m blessed to have found a career that makes me feel complete and is part of my spiritual practice. The biggest reward is that my win helps demonstrate to my daughters the value of hard work. They’re witnesses to the many hours I spend plotting and writing my books. It’s important that I practice what I preach in order for them to see that hard work pays off. It really does!

Love and light,

Eleni

Great news for Jessie’s Song!

  By Eleni | July 1, 2013 - 08:42 | ,
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Jessie’s Song is a finalist for the Readers’ Favorite Book Awards. The timing was fortuitous as I also made a new cover for the book. My mother received the proof and loved it, but she brought up how she would’ve preferred a different hair style for Jessie. When she mentioned cornrows, I knew I had to make the change as that’s what I had originally intended but had trouble finding the right image to work with. I finally did but then I had a bigger issue to deal with. I’d blended the hair with the original image and didn’t have the separate layers to work with. I usually leave duplicate copies, but for some reason I didn’t for this cover as I thought it was finished. As with my writing, my covers are never finished. Don’t know what I was thinking!

Rather than go through tweaking the original image, I took more shots of my daughter and worked on the skin tone. It looked good, but the original image captured the best mood, so I returned to it, spending almost two full days tweaking Jessie. It was worth the effort, so I’m not complaining. She’s the perfect Jessie. I can easily see her singing her song! I also threw in some inner-glow to further define the guitar-shaped shadow box.

In other news, I’m currently tweaking the book cover for Beyond Omegas’s Sunrise and editing Forever Valley. I’m also preparing for a book tour that will be starting on August 1st.

Love and light,

Eleni