Please welcome my longtime friends and fellow authors (husband and wife team) ADRIANA KRAFT! They are doing their cover reveal for SWINGERS LIGHT UP VEGAS, which was designed by yours truly!
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I am so excited about this
cover from Veridian Rose Graphics for our
upcoming release! My husband and I, who write together under this pen name,
created a (very) short story to give our readers a sample of the highly charged
erotic world enjoyed by a fictional mid-life couple in the swing lifestyle. Swingers
Light Up Vegas will be released on January 30, and pre-order will be
available later this week.
On our last trip to Las Vegas,
we scoured the city for photos and adventures we could gift to those
characters, hoping one of the pics could be used on our cover.
Did our cover artist use them?
No, but it wasn’t her fault.
We’d told her we wanted two
things on the cover: something sexy, and something that anchored the cover
explicitly in Las Vegas.
So even though all the photos say “Vegas” to me, none of
them really scream it for anyone else. The fabulous High Roller LINQ? Lots of
cities have those by now, and a nighttime shot says nothing about which city it
is. Ditto a Lazy River. Pick a tropical setting anywhere (or even just a
relatively warm one), and lots of resorts sport them. The view from the
Stratosphere? We actually didn’t even send her that one; it does picture the
famous strip, but from such a distance that it’s not distinctive. And the same
with the view out our 8th floor window. It gave us lots of pleasure,
every night, to watch the sun set over the south end of the strip, but the
photo isn’t identifiably Vegas. You can catch all those photos at https://wp.me/p9O7pv-336
Valerie June Bondarenko of Veridian Rose Graphics is the
artist we approached to create our cover. She began by offering us several
“sexy” photo options to consider, and both Hubs and I were immediately drawn to
the shot with a window, roses in a vase, and a partially clad female torso
wearing black lace. Perfect. The swing lifestyle is
focused on women and what women want; men may love to ogle, but women call the
shots. We think our cover gives her the power to beckon, and the power to say
no.
Next question: what to put in
the window? That’s where we’d thought the High Roller LINQ could go, but it
didn’t really work, and it would still have left us with the question of how to
convey Vegas. Valerie came up with the idea of the iconic Las Vegas welcome
sign in the window, and when we got the draft, we both said “wow.” It’s
perfect.
Next dilemma: the
window-roses-black lace pic wasn’t the right dimensions for a cover, and anyway
we still needed placement for the title and author. We were clueless, but
Valerie came up with the dark red lace on black borders top and bottom. This is
why she's the artist.
Last issue: font for title and
author. We thought about neon lights – we think she’s captured that spirit in
the title font and colors. Plus it’s a fun touch that “light up” actually
lights up the title. And who doesn’t love seeing their name in big bold
letters?
So yes, we signed off on her
first complete cover draft immediately and are thrilled we did. We highly
recommend her:
BLURB
Swingers Light Up Vegas
BOOK
INFO
Genre: Erotic Romance, Bisexual, Later in
Life
Release Date: January 30, 2023
Length: 5K words
Price: 99 cents
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Pre-order coming soon at https://books2read.com/
TAGS
Bisexual erotic romance, LGBTQ+, Swing Lifestyle, Ménage, Later
in Life, Las Vegas
ABOUT ADRIANA KRAFT
Adriana Kraft is the pen name for a married pair of retired
professors writing erotic romance and erotic romantic suspense together. We
like to think we’ve broken the mold for staid, fusty academics, and we hope
lots of former profs are enjoying life as much as we are. We believe that love
is love is love, and we often feature bisexual women and ménage in our erotic
romance stories. Together we have published more than fifty erotic romance
novels and novellas to outstanding reviews.
During our academic careers, we lived in many states across
the Midwest. We love to travel, so when we retired, we sold our house and took
off in our motor home across the country. We now make our home in southern
Arizona, where we enjoy hiking, golf, and travel, especially to the many
Arizona Native American historical sites.
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