Blog Tour Stop including Author Guest Post & Giveaway – The Jewel Cave by Elizabeth Noble

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Book Name: The Jewel Cave

Release Date: April 1, 2015

Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23279929-jewel-cave

Author Name: Elizabeth Noble

Author Bio:

Elizabeth Noble started telling stories before she actually knew how to write, and her family was very happy when she learned to put words on a page. Those words turned into fan fiction that turned into a genuine love of M/M romance fiction. Being able to share her works with Dreamspinner is really a dream come true. She has a real love for a good mystery complete with murder and twisty plots as well as all things sci-fi, futuristic, and supernatural and a bit of an unnatural interest in a super-volcano in Wyoming.

Elizabeth has three grown children and is now happily owned by an adorable mixed breed canine princess named Rosie, and two cats, Murphy and Yeti. She lives in her native northeast Ohio, the perfect place for gardening, winter and summer sports (go Tribe!). When she’s not writing she’s working as a veterinary nurse, so don’t be surprised to see her men with a pet or three who are a very big part of their lives.

Two of Elizabeth’s books have received Honorable Mentions in the Rainbow Awards.

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Elizabeth has some pretty amazing covers.  Here is her guest post on the inspiration for the covers as well as the importance of a fantastic cover for a story.

Thank you for hosting me today. I love all of my covers and they are amazing, thank you for saying so! As much as I’d like to take the credit for them I can’t. All the kudos for my spectacular covers goes to the art department.

Working with the Dreamspinner art department is wonderful. The only cover I had an idea for before the book was written was the cover for For the Long Run. That one was in my head from the start and the artist did a wonderful job bringing it to life.

We get a form to fill out that has questions about the book and things we’d like on the cover. One of the questions is to describe your dream cover. Sometimes I give a real answer, more times I simply list elements I’d like on the cover and twice I wrote: I have no idea, surprise me. The artists are really good at explaining what works or doesn’t work and why. They also offer several versions of a cover and it’s so much fun to see how they visualize elements of my book.

Each of my series has a bit of a different look. I like a cover that compliments the book and tells a visual story about it in some way.

For Sentries I wanted covers that had both the main characters, Todd and Nick Ruger together on the covers. Two of the book covers are actual scenes and the other three have elements important to the series and the story. Those covers are all drawn by Paul Richmond.

The covers for The Sleepless City as well as Circles were created by TL Bland, she does photo manipulation style covers. My cowriter for The Sleepless City series, Anne Barwell, and I made a list of certain things that we wanted represented on all the covers.

All the covers in a series match in various ways. The font and other aspects of the overall design is always the same. There are things Terry sends me and tells me to make sure I really love this or that, because I’ll have to live with it for the life of a series. She and Paul have both been wonderful in guiding me in the right direction. I’ve come to the conclusion artists are very patient people.

When designing the covers for Circles TL aka Terry, used color, texture and fonts to tie each book in the series together. Each cover’s color scheme reflects something about the book. The red on Run for the Roses is for the red roses used in the Kentucky Derby. On the front of A Barlow Lens is a telescope and a blue background depicting a night sky. Jewel Cave’s cover is green and gray. Terry used actual pictures of the interior of the Jewel Cave system as a guide. My requirements were horses for the first book, an old fashioned telescope for the second and something that represented the real Jewel Cave system and writing.

A good cover is advertisement for your book. At a glance a potential reader should get an idea of some part of the story. Covers need to catch your eye and say: hey, come here, look at this one!

I think the important thing is a cover that stands out from the crowd. My covers are a result of me giving the artist a general idea of what I want on there, what the story is about and what is most important in the story.  Then I leave them alone (mostly, I like getting teasers) to do their work. I’ve never been disappointed!

Author Contact:

Website  http://www.elizabeth-noble.com

Circles website: http://elizabeth-noble-circles.weebly.com/

Dreamspinner Circles Page: http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/index.php?cPath=54_1320

Dreamspinner Author Arcade: http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/AuthorArcade/i398-elizabeth-noble

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elizabeth.noble.77

Tsu: https://www.tsu.co/ElizabethNoble

Google+ pages:  https://plus.google.com/110207268360224371489/posts

Twitter: @elizabethnoble1

Publisher: Dreamspinner Press

Cover Artist:

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Blurb(s): Through ten wonderful years Griff Diamond and Clint Bishop weathered good times and bad together. Lately they haven’t spent as much time together as they’d like, and their physical relationship is suffering. Then Clint loses his job at the steel mill. Instead of worrying, he sees it as an opportunity to lean on his steady partner, start his writing career, and rekindle the passion they’ve lost.

But a friendly relationship with another author turns to obsession, putting Clint’s life in danger. Taken against his will to the Jewel Cave system in South Dakota, Clint must rely on the skills he’s learned from Griff to survive.

Fearing the worst, Griff tracks Clint across the country. As a US Marshall, Griff’s always been the man who keeps everyone safe, but he doesn’t know how he and Clint will survive this.

Categories: Contemporary, Crime Fiction, Gay Fiction, Mystery, Romance

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Excerpt:

It was time to back away from Dylan, what had been a friendship had definitely shifted to territory uncomfortable to Clint. He didn’t want to hurt Dylan’s feelings. He’d tried sending a few emails telling Dylan some of his pictures weren’t appreciated, but it did no good. The guy was either dense or stubborn.

Unlike some of his other friends, Clint knew nothing about Dylan’s family or the people who lived near him. As far as Clint could tell, Dylan was alone in the world, and his sudden attachment to Clint was starting to feel creepy. So, lately, Clint had been taking longer and longer to answer emails and tried to keep subjects of conversation as neutral as possible or focused on writing projects.

The pictures Clint deleted. Griff would flip if he ever knew about those photos, not that Clint would blame him in the least. He would have loved to share some of his other concerns about Dylan’s wellbeing with Griff, but Clint knew the man would turn Dylan into one of America’s Most Wanted in under a minute.

Such was the hazard of sharing his life with a US Deputy Marshal.

He’d made a vow to himself long ago he’d never use Griff’s job or badge unless there was a solid, valid reason. Someone he’d known for a few years all of a sudden annoying him online was not solid or valid in Clint’s mind. Clint kept reminding himself Dylan was lonely and had no family. He was probably merely one of those people who didn’t get the concept of boundaries. That didn’t make him a criminal, just socially awkward.

Clint nearly jumped out of his skin when someone’s strong arm snaked around his waist and pulled him back against a firm body. Warm breath blew in his ear along with the words, “You left the door unlocked again. I could be the neighborhood whack job here to bludgeon you to death after defiling you.”

“You scared the crap out of me!” Clint yelped, trying to squirm away, but it was useless. “You’re the guy on this street with all the big guns.” Behind him Griff chuckled and used one finger to move Clint’s hair away from his neck. He pressed a soft kiss to the spot. Clint glared down at the dogs. “And you two! You need watchdog lessons.”

Griff gave a little jerk forward with his hips and snickered. “And those big guns are all yours.” He let go of Clint, turned him, and shook him by the shoulders for a second. “Lock the goddamn doors. Even if someone smashes through the storm door, you’ll at least hear them.” He raised his eyebrows and leaned away from Clint, letting him go. “For me. Please. ’Cause the only defiling that goes on in this house is done by me.”

Clint burst out laughing. Griff’s blue-gray eyes twinkled, and the corners crinkled in a way Clint loved when Griff smiled. “Sorry, I’m late,” Griff said. He used his free hand to pet the dogs.

Pages or Words: 42,000 words

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