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J.L. Greger is no longer a biology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; instead she’s putting tidbits of science into her novels.
She and Bug, her Japanese Chin dog and the only non-fictional character in all three of her novels, live in the Southwest. Her website is at http://www.jlgreger.com. Her blog, JL Greger’s Bugs, is at http://www.jlgregerblog.blogspot.com
Choosing a Cover for IGNORE THE PAIN
I’m no
expert on picking covers, but I have opinions. I think a good cover is like a
good title. It suggests the topic of the book and is catchy. I will also admit
that I like bright primary colors for thrillers and adventure books, pastels
for romances, and dark moody colors for horror and mystery novels because the
colors convey a message.
Those of
you who are sophisticated in your choice of covers have probably concluded that
I’m very traditional. Now look at the cover of my new medical thriller. Ignore
the Pain is set partially in Bolivia, and the heroine Sara Almquist is
an epidemiologist serving as a public health consultant there.
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I looked
at hundreds (maybe even thousands) of pictures of scenes in South America. None
seemed right. They were too pretty and gave no hint about my protagonist. Then
I saw a photo with the colors of the Bolivian flag drawn across the face of a
blue-eyed woman, like Sara. This woman looked like she had guts.
Now do
you still think I’m traditional older woman or do I deserve the title of
spunky? If you’re still not convinced, please note I did climb to the roof of
Iglesia de San Francisco and peer down at the Witches Market in La Paz,
Bolivia. Of course, I wasn’t being chased like Sara Almquist is in Ignore
the Pain.
I surfed
the WEB for blogs on the topic of choosing a cover after I wrote the first four
paragraphs of this blog. Many were by authors showing readers two to five
choices, and collecting votes for which cover was best. Some were ads by
professional cover designers who didn’t seem to want to admit their secrets.
Billie Johnson, my publisher at Oak Tree Press and a spunky senior, gave the
best advice. She called the picture we selected “a real grabber.”
I hope
this blog encourages you grab for attention when you select your next cover.
In Ignore
the Pain, Sara Almquist couldn’t say no when invited to be the
epidemiologist on a public health mission to assess children’s health in
Bolivia. Soon someone from her past in New Mexico is chasing her through the
Witches’ Market of La Paz and trying to trap her at the silver mines of PotosÃ.
Unfortunately, she can’t trust her new colleagues, especially the unsavory Xave
Zack, because any one of them might be under the control of the coca industry
in Bolivia. And coca is everywhere in Bolivia.
Ignore the Pain is the third novel in a series
that tracks the adventures of epidemiologist Sara Almquist and her more
reserved sister – physician Linda Almquist.
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In the suspense novel Coming
Flu, Sara, while tracking the spread of the deadly Philippine flu,
identifies a drug kingpin trapped in a quarantined community.
In the medical
mystery Murder: A New Way to Lose Weight, Linda Almquist must discover
whether an ambitious young “diet doctor” or old-timers in a medical school with
buried secrets is a killer.
In the medical
mystery Murder: A New Way to Lose Weight, Linda Almquist must discover
whether an ambitious young “diet doctor” or old-timers in a medical school with
buried secrets is a killer.
Amazon
sell links:
Ignore the Pain: http://www.amazon.com/Ignore-Pain-J-L-Greger/dp/1610091310/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1385498311&sr=1-1&keywords=Ignore+the+Pain
Coming Flu: http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Flu-ebook/dp/B008WDL84O/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1372715303&sr=1-1&keywords=Coming+Flu
Murder:
A New Way to Lose Weight: http://www.amazon.com/Murder-New-Lose-Weight-ebook/dp/B00DFCC3IM/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1372715439&sr=1-1&keywords=Murder%3A+A+New+Way+to+Lose+Weight
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