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What’s in a (book)cover?
Monday, October 7, 2019 in Bartlett's Rule | Tags: Amazon, audiobook, Barnes&Noble, book-cover design, Chelle Cordero, e-book, print, rape survivor, Richard W. Paterson, Smashwords | Leave a comment
Bartlett’s Rule
Yesterday fellow author Richard W. Paterson and I co-hosted a writing workshop in our local community. It was a fascinating and enriching discussion where we covered several topics. We were so impressed with
the range of questions and experience of all of the participants.
One of the topics we discussed was “How important is the book-cover?”
I showed them two different covers for my novel Bartlett’s Rule

The original

The revised
The first run of Bartlett’s Rule displayed the first, darker cover which gave
the impression that it was a young couple (mainly due to the man’s jaw line).
However the subject matter of the novel involved a rape survivor and the aftermath the rape had on her future relationships, and some of the language and sexual scenes were certainly explicit. (The rape took place prior to the story’s opening). Unfortunately the original cover was often mistaken as a YA theme and so it was quickly changed.
The revised cover of Bartlett’s Rule proved to be more attractive to an
older readership and the book received several favorable reviews.
Ironically many moms felt the book touched on a subject important
enough that several even passed it along to their teen-age daughters to
read and discuss.
So what is YOUR opinion about how
important a book-cover design is?
Bartlett’s Rule is available on
Amazon in Print, Kindle or Audiobook
Barnes&Noble in Paperback or NookBook
Smashwords in multiple E-Book formats
and other online retailers & libraries
Bid on a Bartlett’s Rule audiobook & raise money for Diabetes Research
Friday, May 16, 2014 in Bartlett's Rule | Tags: Audio Book, Bartlett's Rule, Brenda Novak, Chelle Cordero, Diabetes research, fundraiser, Goodreads review, Malcolm Campbell, Online Auction, rape, survivor | Leave a comment
An audio copy of Bartlett’s Rule is being auctioned off.
BARTLETT’S RULE shares the story of Lon and Paige’s love affair; a romance filled with hardship, emotion, danger and triumph. Falling in love was never the challenge; being there for each other, knowing just what to say and making it work is the real test. Paige and Lon are real; they are human, they cry and they laugh. Paige has to learn to trust. Lon has to learn to be patient.
At the conclusion of the auction, Chelle will send the winner the code
to download the book to the device or computer of their choice directly from Audible.com
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Malcolm Campbell’s review of Bartlett’s Rule
“Bartlett’s Rule” is an easy-to-read novel about difficult-to-resolve issues for rape survivors and the prospective significant others in their lives. For Paige and Lon, sorting out the boundaries of trust and the limits of patience is a treacherous undertaking because they are very much in the public eye and because Hal’s arrogant needs are not yet satisfied.
Unfortunately, Paige’s dysfunctional family is also not out of sight and out of mind, providing additional twists and turns in the plot to keep readers guessing about choices and outcomes until the last page.