*** Cover Reveal ***
Swingers Light Up Vegas
by
Adriana Kraft
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:
Veridian Rose Graphics
BLURB
Swingers Light Up Vegas
What happens in Vegas…
Swingers Brett and Jen head
to Las Vegas to celebrate Jen’s fiftieth birthday. Through their friends back
home, they’ve scored a free week at a posh Vegas resort condominium. They fill
their days with every iconic Las Vegas experience they can dream up. But by
night? They’re determined not to leave Vegas without sampling what it has to
offer in the erotically charged swing lifestyle. A Vegas swing club beckons –
will it live up to their fantasies?
BOOK INFO
Genre: Erotic Romance, Bisexual, Later in Life
Release Date: January 30, 2023
Length: 5K words
Price: 99 cents
BUY LINK
Pre-order coming soon at https://books2read.com/
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.
AUTHOR
LINKS
https://linktr.ee/AdrianaKraft
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