What happens when I visit the stock sites for #coverart #bookcover models and pics #MondayBlogs

Grrr...

I spend interminable hours looking for faces I haven't seen on a thousand book covers or haven't yet used myself.

Please someone out there start photographing people and even places so that there are more.

There are so many book releases now and new eBooks are in the millions and growing exponentially daily.

Yikes, does this mean we have to start using more and more ways of disguising the face we've seen a huge number of times on covers?

Art work takes a lot of time. 

I love it, but can I please have some new faces.

I thought the guy to the left had hardly been used ... I was wrong.

Not seen the model below yet but it's early in the week.

 The lovely cover for A Fairy Tale Romance from Evernight has a couple that are so frequently seen now, it's bizarre.

I searched for a different pic with models that have their faces hidden to make the banner. Fab pic found, and they are on the beach, but what's the betting I see the pic as I browse the eBook sites tomorrow?

When I designed and made the cover for The Flower Box, I'd genuinely not seen the couple on book covers, yikes, only weeks later they were everywhere.

Naturally, as soon as new faces pop up, book cover artists, graphic artists, snap them up, just like me.

So let's end on a pic,  Dreamstime purchased faces I've not seen much of yet, but don't let anyone who designs book covers know ... please

For #MWTease today, #coverreveal for the December release from Siren Publishing, 'Candle magic' erotic fantasy #romance

From Candle Magic 

A December release from Siren Publishing
TBR

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23603487-candle-magic
Check later in December
http://www.bookstrand.com/elodie-parkes

When Simi finds a pretty old candlestick among the discarded props in the company storeroom, she never imagines it will grant her dearest wish. There’s something mysterious about the carved candlestick, but Simi is drawn to it. She’s saved a red candle from a box she bought years ago in an antique shop, and intends to use the candlestick to hold the last candle and make her solitary Christmas lunch more festive. It’s Christmas Eve, there’s sleet in the wind, Simi slips, but Jason catches her. Who is Jason? Where has he suddenly appeared from in the night?

Simi looks into the eyes of this gorgeous man and sparks fly …

Read the tease:

Not a sound came from the other apartments. Simi’s breathing echoed in her ears as well as her heartbeat that sped up every time Jason was close as they mounted the last flight of stairs to her apartment.

Simi’s hand shook as she unlocked the door.

Jason stood close to her.

The space between them pulsed, making Simi feel as if he actually pressed against her. The atmosphere suddenly laden with sexual tension, Simi stared down at the parquet floor as she led Jason down her apartment hall to the living room. She stopped and turned to him. He loomed in front of her like a magnet of pure sexual temptation. She dropped her bag by the coffee table and unbuttoned her overcoat. She dared to look into his eyes as she slid the coat off.

“Let me take your coat. The heating is on. We’ll get warm quickly now.” Her voice shook a little.

Jason took his overcoat off and handed it to her with a smile in his eyes.

“Thank you.”

“Sit down. I’ll take these and put some coffee on, or would you like a glass of wine? I think I have some bourbon, too.”

His voice low, he slowly sat on the end of the sofa as he answered, “Coffee is very welcome.”

She practically ran to the coat stand that was halfway down the hall near her kitchen door. She pulled her business suit jacket off and hung that there, too. With a little skip into the kitchen, Simi put coffee on. She left it to percolate and walked back to the living room. With every step, the need to be held against Jason’s muscled chest again grew, until when she saw him sitting quietly on the sofa, her heart gave a huge flip.

Copyright Elodie Parkes 2014 Siren Publishing All Rights Reserved

December 2014 release

HOP to the next TEASE

Cover reveal 'Unexpected Storm' from Secret Cravings, #erotic #romance #coverart

When Holly takes a vacation with friends, she never dreams she will meet someone who turns her lonely life around in just one afternoon…the question is, can this kind of heat last… ‘Unexpected Storm,’ releasing June 21, from Secret Cravings Publishing. An erotic short to make sure your summer sizzles.

Snippet

“Hi, my name’s Will. I’m not sorry I grabbed your ass. You’re lovely and I just couldn’t help it. Blame the atmosphere, the positive ions.” He smiled and it made him even more beautiful.

Holly couldn’t get past the lure of his muscular arm being so close to her she could’ve nestled against it. She couldn’t tear her gaze from his blue eyes. Her entire body reacted wildly to this man.

*****

Copyright Elodie Parkes 2014, Secret Cravings, Book cover artist Dawné Dominique 2014

Put it on your TBR list @ Goodreads

Releasing June 21