For Valentine's Day, try Thibodeaux's 'Love in Season'

Today’s Louisiana Book News guest blogger is Pamela S. Thibodeaux, a multi-published author from Louisiana who describes her books as "Inspirational with an edge."

Love in Season

For quite some time I wanted to put together a collection of short stories that centered around the four seasons and four holidays that focus on love and family — Valentine's Day, Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Since I already had several stories at Pelican Book Group, I mentioned this idea to my editor, the amazing Nicola Martinez, and she loved it. I submitted two previously unpublished stories to round out the collection, along with those PBG had already published, and viola! “Love in Season” was born.

Look closely at the cover….

I had been in Florida for the Citrus Bowl and while there, I visited Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World with my family. One of the most breathtaking sights is the Tree of Life/garden. Within the trunk of this huge tree are carvings of every kind of animal. You can view it from any angle and take a dozen different pictures and each time see something more and/or different.

What does this have to do with a book cover?

I’ve always admired the covers Pelican Book Group creates for its titles and when I first received the cover for “Love in Season” I thought, “How sweet.” But a closer look revealed a whole lot more than a couple on a bench in front of a lovely tree. Spring, summer, fall and winter are all depicted within the leaves and branches of this tree. It takes an amazing eye for detail to pick something like this for a book cover. Thanks to Nicola Martinez for creating such as beautiful work of art for my collection of romantic short stories.

“Love in Season” releases on Valentine’s Day but you can pre-order the book from Pelican Book Group and Amazon.

Louisiana Book News is written by award-winning author Chere Dastugue Coen, who writes Louisiana romances and mysteries under the pen name of Cherie Claire. Her first book in each series is FREE to download as an ebook, including "Emilie," book one of The Cajun Series, "Ticket to Paradise," book one of The Cajun Embassy series and "A Ghost of a Chance," the first Viola Valentine mystery.