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A Murder of Magpies by Sarah Bromley
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A MURDER OF MAGPIES cover art
Besides the dream of seeing your book in print, one thing so many authors daydream about is what the cover will look like. I come from an artistic background. My grandmother was a watercolorist, and I actually spent time in college as an art major before switching first to forensic pathology (don’t ask—it obviously didn’t last) and eventually English. As someone who’s visual, I was excited and, to be honest, nervous for what Month9Books would come up with as the design for the cover of A MURDER OF MAGPIES.
Georgia McBride asked for my input, which I know is rare because so often authors don’t get much say, if any, in their cover art, but I still didn’t know what to expect. Yet when I saw it, I adored my cover. How could there be any other cover for A MURDER OF MAGPIES? The design brings in details like the cobblestone roads of the book’s setting, Black Orchard, Wisconsin. I could imagine walking down that road in the fog and knowing someone was watching. The antique-style light plays off Vayda’s family’s business in the antiques trade as well as her ability to take emotion and turn it into electricity. Then the bird . . . I love the bird’s position as it is hunched over to peck at the ground as if uncovering a secret, and this is a story where everyone has secrets.
Winter in Black Orchard, Wisconsin, is long and dark, and sixteen-year-old Vayda Silver prays the snow will keep the truth and secrecy of the last two years buried. Hiding from the past with her father and twin brother, Vayda knows the rules: never return to the town of her mother’s murder, and never work a Mind Game where someone might see.
No one can know the toll emotions take on Vayda, how emotion becomes energy in her hands, or how she can’t control the destruction she causes. But it’s not long before her powers can no longer be contained. The truth is dangerously close to being exposed, placing Vayda and her family at risk.
Until someone quiets the chaos inside her.
Unwanted. That’s all Ward Ravenscroft has ever been. To cope, he numbs the pain of rejection by denying himself emotions of any kind. Yet Vayda stirs something in him. He can’t explain the hold she has on him–inspiring him with both hope and fear. He claims not to scare easily, except he doesn’t know what her powers can do. Yet.
Just as Vadya and Ward draw closer, she finds the past isn’t so easily buried. And when it follows the Silvers to Black Orchard, it has murder in mind.
Title: A Murder of Magpies
Publication date: October 28, 2014
Publisher: Month9Books, LLC.
Author: Sarah Bromley
Sarah Bromley lives near St. Louis with her husband, three children, and two dogs. She likes the quiet hours of morning when she can drink coffee in peace, stare into the woods behind her house, and wonder what monsters live there. When she’s not writing or wrangling small children, she can be found volunteering at a stable for disabled riders.
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As an extra-special treat, I’ve got an exclusive excerpt to share with you guys!
Alone, Ward swiveled to face me. “Why are you so quiet?”
“My mom liked to say that if a secret’s revealed it’s the fault of the person who confided it,” I answered.
“You have secrets?”
As of right then, I wanted more than ever to tell him mine.
That would be foolish. Dad worked too hard to protect Jonah and me. My hands twirled the hair pooled in my lap. Ward ducked his shoulders and smiled when I lifted my head.
“What happened when you walked me home?” he asked.
“You won’t understand. There are a lot complications and—”
“Try me. I don’t scare easily.”
His hands covered mine, fingers coiling around my wrists. His body mirrored mine, leg tucked up on the bench while the other hung limp. I dispatched my feelers to grab onto his energy, to find any trace of a lie. He wasn’t afraid of the challenge of being with me.
He should have been.
He should have been terrified, and he wasn’t, and I didn’t know what to make
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I love the atmosphere it gives off, and I have never seen a magpie before, so that is definitely a cool thing, too!!
I think magpie is one of the coolest bird names ever. =) And the more I look at this cover, the more I fall in love w/it!
I love this! The cover is so gorgeous, and the teaser is perfectly teasing. :)
I love the cover! very cool
Great book cover can’t wait to read it!
LOVE the cover! Can’t wait to read it!
I Love this cover. It’s not cookie cutter like so many books are nowadays!
Can’t wait to read this book! Love the cover!
I cannot wait to read this!
I love this cover, it is simple but eye catching! I can’t wait to read it :)
The cover is amazing!! One of the best I have seen in a while.