Whenever You Want

This is an especially proud day for me.  I wrote this book in 2006-2007, and it had a very nice run as a free book.  Finally, it's in paperback and ebook on Amazon and everyone can enjoy the magic.  It's especially wonderful because it's a book about an escort and one of the tags for the book is 'clean and wholesome'.  I know.  How did I accomplish that?  Well, there is only one way to find out.

Normally, this first introductory post would be about the synopsis on the back or an excerpt from inside, but not this time around.  This time I'd like to talk about the cover.

I always do my own cover design, but I do not create the piece of art I use as the central focus.  Instead, I check out various artists' work and choose something that has already been created that suits my purposes.  I pay them and feel pretty awesome about the whole transaction because I love supporting starving artists. 

For the cover of Whenever You Want I started doing just that.  I found myself particularly drawn to images that were gold and black, but most of the pictures I gathered lacked a much-desired depth to them.  Not only that, but they failed at being complex images.  They were images that focused on hair or eyelashes that didn't translate into an atmosphere.  I started thinking that I should contact a more experienced graphic designer than myself when my brain suddenly clicked.  I do know someone who is a better graphic designer than me.  She had over a thousand followers on Sketch before they shut it down!  So, I called her up.  By 'called her up', I mean that I asked her to come upstairs from the living room.  I drew a little pencil drawing of the basic idea of what I wanted and then I told her to do it her way.  This was the image she brought back to me.

Needless to say, my daughter, Kait, is an awesome graphic designer.  She's still in junior high!  I am so proud.  This is not her usual style.  Her flexibility in making an image to suit a brief stunned me.  And before you ask, yes I paid her.  In hats, but also in money.

Because this has been free for 13 years, an ebook of it is still free.  Here's the link to download your free copy.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/987116

For those of you who prefer paperbacks, here's a link for where you can order one if you live in Canada, and right after is the link for where you can order one if you live in the USA.  Remember, Christmas is coming!

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/1700538322/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/Whenever-You-Want-Stephanie-Orman/dp/1700538322/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=whenever+you+want+by+Stephanie+van+orman&qid=1572462673&sr=8-1