The Star Dwellers Cover Reveal!!

With only 4 days until the release of The Star Dwellers, the sequel to my YA dystopian book, The Moon Dwellers, I'm pleased to finally reveal the cover!

My artist, Tony Wilson at Winkipop Designs has once again done a fantastic job of artistically capturing the darkness of the underground world I've created. He does everything by hand rather than working from images and I think he really nailed it this time. In this cover, he portrays an alley deep below the surface of the earth in the Star Realm, where Adele must now travel to seek to find her mother.

Will she find her? And will she be able to help convince the star dwellers to join with the moon dwellers? The fate of the Tri-Realms sits on the edge of a knife, with only one truth that remains: in their world, someone must die.

Without further ado, here's the cover!! I hope you all like it and I can't wait to see what you all think of The Star Dwellers.  Keep on reading!

 

 

A special thanks to the 16 bloggers who were so kind to post my cover reveal today! You all are awesome and have super cool blogs, anyone who's looking for some new book blogs to follow, check out these ones! 

 

Martha- http://theshortone08.blogspot.com/

Kay- http://k-booksxo.blogspot.co.uk/

Terri- http://mybookboyfriend.blogspot.com

Zuleeza- http://zue-leysza.blogspot.com.au/

Katrina- http://athousand-lives.blogspot.co.nz

Shieka- Http://doctorsnotes-shy.blogspot.com

Rachael- http://www.moosubi.blogspot.com

Jennifer- http://randomjendsmit.blogspot.com/

Mallory- http://archiestandwoodsreviewsandwritings.blogspot.com/

Alana- http://darkobsessionchronicles.blogspot.com/

Tana- http://tana-someofmyfavoritebooks.blogspot.ca/

Roxanne- http://roxykade.blogspot.com

Laurice- http://lauricewithlove.blogspot.com/

Nickle- http://nightowlreads.org and http://muzikistah.com

Marni- http://wordtodreams.blogspot.com/

Think- http://thinksbooks.blogspot.com/



Should The Moon Dwellers be made into a movie?

As I’ve been preparing to launch the sequel to The Moon Dwellers, called The Star Dwellers, on September 30^th, I’ve immersed myself in everything to do with The Moon Dwellers. I recently saw that The Moon Dwellers has been voted to the top of a list of books readers wish would be turned into movies! Needless to say, I was ecstatic and thrilled and excited. Bring on the movie producers! Take my book and cast the characters, chop it up into a thousand sound bites and scenes and Hollywoodize it!!! Sorry, that’s a lot of exclamation points—yes, I was very excited.

But I want to know what you think: Do you think The Moon Dwellers would make a good movie? If so, vote for it at the following link and keep it at #1! I’d also appreciate your thoughts and comments below.

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/21795.Books_I_wish_will_turn_into_movies#13931214

 

I’ve always been a HUGE movie person, and love it when my favorite books are converted to the big screen, especially when they turn out to be really good, like Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, or The Hunger Games, to name just a few. I think that might be part of the reason that when people read my books they can visualize the stories in their head like mini-movies. It’s the same when I write my books. I close my eyes and can vividly picture each scene as it unfolds. Then I just write what I see.

 

So will any of my books ever be made into movies? I have no idea, but I’d love to give it a try. If anyone knows anyone in the movie biz *wink wink*, I’d be forever in your debt if you send them my way *hint hint*. While I’m waiting for that call, I’ll keep writing, and I hope you all will keep reading.

Happy reading!

The Super-Exciting Refer-a-Friend Giveaway!

OK, so you might be asking yourself, Self, I've read The Moon Dwellers, and the sequel, The Star Dwellers doesn't come out until September 30th, so do I do with myself? What? You're telling me that your life doesn't revolve around the release schedule of my books? Say it ain't so! Fair enough. But if you did enjoy The Moon Dwellers and are looking forward to The Star Dwellers, have I got the giveaway/contest for you!

The way it works is that you can win fabulous prizes simply by referring your friends to buy The Moon Dwellers for a pittance (only $2.99 in ebook on Kindle, Nook, iBooks) and everywhere ebooks are sold).

So what are these "fabulous prizes" you ask?

Grand prize: The winner (the one who refers the most friends to buy The Moon Dwellers) will get a Signed Paperback of all three books in The Dwellers Saga and a LIVE online video chat with me where you can ask me all those burning questions about my books, my life, and why I've refused to cut my hair in nearly 6 months.

The Signed Paperbacks you'll win!
1. The Moon Dwellers (Already on Sale)
2. The Star Dwellers (Expected Publication September 30th)
3. The Sun Dwellers (Expected Publication November 30th)

Other Prizes

- All participants who convince (persuade, beg, coerce) at least 15 people to buy The Moon Dwellers will be awarded a live online video chat with me. Winner must have a google+ account, because that's where I like to video chat!

- All the participants who convince (force, bribe, blackmail) at least 5 people to buy The Moon Dwellers) will be automatically included in a drawing to win a free signed copy of The Moon Dwellers and The Star Dwellers.
Easy right? So just tell your friends about The Moon Dwellers between now and September 23rd, where they can buy it, and ask them to e-mail you their receipts to prove they purchased it (just in case you win, ya know?)

So here are some links to where your friends can by my books, so just pop them in an e-mail, Facebook post, Tweet, or blog post (or whatever you prefer) to all your friends, and you're on your way!

Amazon Kindle and Print

B&N Nook

Smashwords


Thanks for all the support, kind words, and feedback and keep on reading for the official giveaway/contest rules, because my marketing folks make me do it!

Official Super-Exciting Refer-a-Friend Contest Rules

The fan that manages to get the most people to BUY “The Moon Dwellers” (Paperback/eBook) wins.

Rules and Regulations.
1. All participants must be 13+ to enter

2. The participants will have until September 23rd 2012 to send an email to: contest@sharearead.com with the number of people that you got to buy “The Moon Dwellers by David Estes”

3. A winner will be chosen based on the number of people that he/she referred.

4. The winner will have to provide a proof purchase (purchase summary)from all the people that he/she referred

5. If the winner cannot provide proof of purchase another winner will be chosen.

6. For safety reasons if the winner is a minor we require parents consent to obtain the winner address.

7. For safety reasons if the winner is a minor we require parents consent for a live chat.

8. For safety reasons if the runner ups are minors we require parents consent for a live chat.

9. This contest will run from August 7th to September 23rd 2012.

10. Judging will be carried out during from September 24th to 28th 2012.

11. All participants must be a follower of David's blog http://davidestesbooks.blogspot.mx/

Winners will be announced on http://davidestesbooks.blogspot.mx/ by David Estes and via e-mail.

The winner will have 48 hrs. To provide the proofs of purchase or another winner will be chosen.

http://davidestesbooks.blogspot.mx/ and http://sharearead.com have retained the right to make any necessary changes to this contest without prior notice.

Ask any questions regarding the contest by e-mailing contest@sharearead.com.

Bloggers, please feel free to share this contest on your blog.