A dark fantasy retelling... Bound Beauty by Jennifer Silverwood (Guest Post & #Giveaway)


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Check out a guest post from the author about the book covers and enter the tour giveaway below...


Bound Beauty
(A Wylder Tale #3)
By Jennifer Silverwood
YA Dark Fantasy
Paperback & ebook
December 21st 2018

Summary

Beware the bond between blood and beasts...

Vynasha has united the warring human and forgotten clans of Wylderland, claiming her majik and power as curse breaker. Her brother, Ceddrych keeps their nephew safely hidden away while Vynasha and her new allies fight against the feral beasts roaming their borders.

Meanwhile, her friendship with the Iceveins family deepens, unveiling a love she never expected. But her majik is still bound to the cursed prince she left behind and he isn't done fighting for her soul.

Darker forces walk in the forests, all drawn to Vynasha's light and the shade of a corrupt Enchantress haunts her waking dreams. A war is about to begin, between the forgotten people of Wylderland and the evil power of Bitterhelm.

Prophecy and Forgotten unite in the epic third chapter of the Wylder Tales Series, a gothic re-telling of Beauty and the Beast.

The Wylder Tales Series
Craving Beauty (Vol. 1)
Wolfsbane's Daughter (Vol. 1.5)
Scarred Beauty (Vol. 2)
Bound Beauty (Vol. 3)



Guest Post: What's in a Cover?

I have a very unique relationship with my cover designer. I first discovered Najla Qamber in 2012, when I was scouring Deviantart for talented artists. I had drawn a cover for one of my novellas, but knew it wasn’t quite up to snuff. Also, I wanted someone to design my cover for my current WIP, Silver Hollow. I stumbled across Najla’s profile, messaged her and the rest is history. Well, not quite. Najla has covered every single one of my novels (and recovered...bless her). Every time I gave her a concept stirring around in my brain, she broke through my expectations with her brilliance. Somewhere along the way we became friends. When my real life bottomed out in a major way, she offered me to work for her on the side as a virtual assistant. As time went on, I started writing books again. Because of Najla’s support, and helping Qamber Designs & Media create beautiful books, I learned how to believe in myself again. So I mean it when I say I owe everything to this fantastic lady.

Back to the art of cover creation: by the time I finally decided to design a cover for Bound Beauty, Volume 3 in my Wylder Tales trilogy, I started sketching out ideas. Series covering 101 teaches you to keep to a theme. Like colors paired with the same font is a great example of this. For the past two novels, we have shown Vyansha in both incarnations, before magic and after, when she is (*spoilers) cursed. For the third, I wanted to use the moon, big in traditional shifter mythology and for this series. At the end of Scarred, Vynasha looks to the moon before claiming who she has become and has the potential to be. Rather than facing the reader, I asked Najla to show her back to back with the prince she is is bound to. It was my way of teasing the story and it also gave Najla a chance to show of her design chops. We hope you love this cover as much as we do!

Wylder Tales Series Covers 2013-2018

Other Books in the Series

Grab the first book, Craving Beauty, for FREE! You can find your preferred
format here. Or grab the compilation of volumes 1, 1.5, and 2 on Amazon.

About the Author


Jennifer Silverwood was raised deep in the heart of Texas and has been spinning yarns a mile high since childhood. In her spare time she reads and writes and tries to sustain her wanderlust, whether it’s the Carpathian Mountains in Transylvania, the highlands of Ecuador or a road trip to the next town. Always on the lookout for her next adventure, in print or reality, she dreams of one day proving to the masses that everything really is better in Texas. She is the author of two series—Heaven's Edge and Wylder Tales—and the stand-alone titles Stay and Silver Hollow.


Tour Schedule

December 3rd:
Launch
Books to Light Your Fire
Mythical Books
J.L. Mbewe
December 4th:
Rockin' Book Reviews
Wishful Endings
Locks, Hooks and Books
December 5th:
Colorimetry
Declarations of a Fangirl
December 6th:
Reading On The Edge
Book Butterfly in Dreamland
Bookworm Lisa
December 7th:
We Write Fantasy
Nicole's Book Musings
December 8th:
Grand Finale

Tour-Wide Giveaway


PRIZE PACK #1: Print copies of Wylder Tales Vol 1-2 along with a "Gothic fairytale" themed basket. (US only.)
PRIZE PACK #2: $10 Amazon eGift Card and winner's choice of two of the author's ebooks (if a novella series is pickes, i.e. Heaven's Edge, then all three novellas will be included). (Open internationally.)

Ends December 12, 2018

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