{"id":802,"date":"2013-04-02T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=802"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:38:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:38:01","slug":"cover-reveal-sunbolt-by-intisar-khanani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"Cover Reveal! SUNBOLT by Intisar Khanani"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t often do cover reveals, but I have chatted covers with Intisar Khanani before, and I know how tough getting a good cover can be for a self-published author – thus, we resume our conversation.<\/p>\n

Some of you will remember my response when I read Intisar Khanani’s Cybil nominated THORN<\/a><\/i> for “A More Diverse Universe” last September. The surprisingly easy-to-get-swept-up-in book was a pleasant surprise. I recently read Khanani’s FREE TODAY short story “The Bone Knife<\/a>,” and felt a little sad there was no more to the tale… but. More is COMING. First — drumroll please — there’s a cover (as always, click to embiggen):<\/p>\n

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Doesn’t that cover WORK? On so many levels, graphic designer (and severe<\/i> book addict) Jenny Z, aka Supernatural Snark<\/a> has brought an intriguing cover to life. On a gray background that resembles pounded metal, the fiery Celtic inspired knotwork pops, and are those sort of lotus-flower flames being shadowed\/reflected there? What, exactly, is this book about???<\/p>\n

Cue the blurb:<\/p>\n

\nThe winding streets and narrow alleys of Karolene hide many secrets, and Hitomi is one of them. Orphaned at a young age, Hitomi has learned to hide her magical aptitude and who her parents really were. Most of all, she conceals her role in the Shadow League, an underground movement working to bring down the powerful and corrupt Archmage Wilhelm Blackflame.<\/p>\n

When the League gets word that Blackflame intends to detain\u2014and execute\u2014a leading political family, Hitomi volunteers to help the family escape. But there are more secrets at play than Hitomi\u2019s, and much worse fates than execution. When Hitomi finds herself captured along with her charges, it will take everything she has to escape with her life.<\/i> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>Intisar Khanani grew up a nomad and world traveler. Born in Wisconsin, she has lived in five different states as well as in Jeddah on the coast of the Red Sea. She first remembers seeing snow on a wintry street in Zurich, Switzerland, and vaguely recollects having breakfast with the orangutans at the Singapore Zoo when she was five. She currently resides in Cincinnati, Ohio, with her husband and two young daughters. Until recently, Intisar wrote grants and developed projects to address community health with the Cincinnati Health Department, which was as close as she could get to saving the world. Now she focuses her time on her two passions: raising her family and writing fantasy.<\/p>\n

Intisar is hard at work on two new projects. The first is a companion trilogy to her debut novel THORN<\/i>, following the heroine introduced in her free short story “The Bone Knife.” The second project, The Sunbolt Chronicles,<\/i> is a novella series following the efforts of a young mage as she strives to bring down her nemesis, a corrupt and dangerous Archmage who means to bring the Eleven Kingdoms under his control.<\/p>\n

If you’re interested – and you should be! – there are a Rafflecopter giveaway<\/a><\/p>\n

…three ebook ARC’s of Sunbolt available, to be provided to winners by mid-May.
\nThere’s more SUNBOLT on:
\nGoodReads<\/a>,

\nIntisar\u2019s Website<\/a>,

\n & on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t often do cover reveals, but I have chatted covers with Intisar Khanani before, and I know how tough getting a good cover…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,12,18],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-contest-alert","tag-fantasy-sci-fi","tag-happenings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7517,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/7517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}