It's Just A Picture

                                                                                                                                                                       You look at this picture, and probably what you would think is it's just a picture. Maybe next you think who would want to take a picture of an old buggy anyway?

You see a picture. I see a book cover. That picture is what is on the cover of my latest Amish book The Courting Buggy-Nurse Hal Among The Amish. My husband and I were looking at what didn't sell at an Amish equipment sale. I had my camera along. My objective has been to find something Amish to use on my covers that didn't involve close ups of Amish people.

I was thrilled when Create Space Self Publishing put in a cover creator on the publishing site. At the time, I thought I'd use that with their pictures and never again struggle to make a book cover in my Photo Shop. I have used several of the book covers furnished by Create Space for other genres I write, but for the Amish books, I use the cover templates that have a square for a picture. If I run out of pictures, then I know I can use the cover template ideas. By the way, I love how easy the Cover Creator works.

So I took several pictures the day I took the buggy one. I always take several different angles and later choose which one I want to use. The one I picked has my husband in it. I actually liked another angle of the buggy better but decided to go with the one my husband was in. I made the cover and told him to look at it. I said something strange cropped up just like the picture of the surfer with the large shark in the surf that they didn't notice until they looked at the picture. I asked for his approval. He said he didn't know about that. I told him it would be all right. He wasn't Amish.

So I have had the pictures to use for the last three years and no story to match. It has taken me almost three years to come up with a story to go with that Amish courting buggy. I waited until November and entered the National Novel Writing Month contest. By the end of the month I had over 54,000 words which put me over the finish line. The month of December I edited the book and the first week of January I published. I wish all my books could be done that easy.

The Courting Buggy - Nurse Hal Among The Amish-Book 6 is on the market now at Amazon, kindle, Nook Store and Smashwords.com. If you read my book leave a review somewhere for me. That helps others get interested in my books. Also, I sell the books I write from my home so you can contact me at booksbyfay@yahoo.com I've ordered a shipment due in about two weeks so I let some of my readers know by personal email. I'd be happy to add to the list anyone that wants to know I've a new book released. The books I mail out are author signed by me. I like the feed back I get from everyone I email. The latest one is, "You always have the most unique plots for Nurse Hal's stories that I always enjoy and anticipate!" If you haven't tried one of my Nurse Hal Among The Amish series see what you're missing.

So now I'm working on another book already, and this one has another one of the equipment sale items as the cover. It is a Cinderella Coach. I took that picture because the coach was an oddity. Look what I came up with to use the picture later on. I'll be sure to let you know more later about Christmas With Hover Hill.