Two blog posts in one week, by golly! (Read that in a Swedish accent, and bonus points if you get the reference.) Today I’ve got a really good excuse for a blog post: I finally get to show you the cover for A Sidekick’s Tale!
The design is by Jennifer Zemanek of Seedlings Design Studio, and I’m delighted with the way it captures both the Western setting and the screwball hilarity of the story:
Meredith Fayett needed to marry someone before the week was out or she would lose her ranch. It sounded simple, so ranch hand Chance Stevens agreed to take on the job, in spite of his friend Marty’s warnings that it could only lead to trouble. But even Marty, a loyal though opinionated sidekick, couldn’t have predicted the mayhem that ensues when his own eccentric relatives appear on the scene, dragging Chance, Marty, and Meredith into the latest skirmish in a long-running family feud. What follows is a hilarious tangle involving an emerald ring, a fearsome aunt, a scheming suitor, and a team of runaway mules—by the end of which Chance finds that even a marriage just on paper has its complications, and that it never hurts to have a good sidekick.
A Sidekick’s Tale will be releasing in ebook and paperback (both editions featuring illustrations by Annie Grubb of The Western Desk) sometime during the month of November. My email list will be the first to hear about it, so if you’re not already a subscriber you can sign up here.
If you’d like to help spread the word about A Sidekick’s Tale, feel free to share the cover on your own blog or on social media! Make sure to include the link to the book’s Goodreads page, so readers can add it to their to-read shelves while they’re waiting for release date to arrive.