New Dark Chemistry cover + which teaser blurb do you like better?

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Dark Chemistry

He’s her worst enemy–and he’s got a drug that controls her. Now he can do his worst. Dark Chemistry. Because evil can take the shape of love.

I admit it. I made a mistake.

When I first released Dark Chemisty, I let myself be seduced by the cliche that “sex sells.”

It does, of course–but it was a bad idea for this book. Dark Chemistry is a plot-driven novel, but it’s also got a bit of concept to it. Putting a woman in a bustier on the cover didn’t really reflect the experience I’m trying to create with this novel.

(This business takes a lot of work to figure out…)

Anyway, I’m working through all my titles to do new covers, and my hunt led me to Jennie Rawlings, who agreed to do a new cover for Dark Chemistry–and I LOVE what she did.

As I said on Twitter, I finally feel like my book has a face that fits :)

But now I have a question and you can help. I’ve got two different drafts of teaser copy, one for the Kindle version, one for the print version.

Which do you like best?

Here they are — and please scroll down to the survey below so you can let me know your choice. Thank you!!!

KINDLE VERSION

She’s been drugged.

She doesn’t know.

It feels so good. Like love.

But it’s a trick. He plans to control her. Rob her. Maybe kill her.

A web of evil.

Will Haley realize that her feelings are not her TRUE feelings?

Does Donavon have the strength left to fight for the woman he loves?

Will the two of them uncover Gerad’s plot to use powerful synthetic pheromones to enslave the world?

And even if they do – can they stop it?

 

PRINT VERSION

If Haley Dubose wants to inherit her father’s fortune, she has no choice. She has to leave sunny Southern California for a little backwater town in Upstate New York, and run a chemical manufacturing company he founded — for two whole years.

But Haley soon wishes her only problems were of the spoiled-rich-girl variety.

She finds herself entangled in a web of evil, spun by men who use powerful, synthetic chemicals to manipulate people.

They can drive their enemies insane.

They can manipulate them sexually.

They can even kill.

And they are preparing to enslave the world.

 

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8 thoughts on “New Dark Chemistry cover + which teaser blurb do you like better?”

  1. To me, the Kindle version reveals too much and the print version is a better “teaser.”

    Caveat: I really suck at writing blurbs, but I know what works for me. It may not work for anyone else.

    • Interesting …

      I’m starting to realize I need to study teaser copy as “a thing…”

      Thanks for the feedback :)

  2. I think printed version reveals too much however one feels dopey not that they’ve been drugged that reveals too much. But I like the rest

  3. Print version! Old people like me prefer more traditional prose than the “sound bite” writing that passes for literature these days. Does anybody write paragraphs of more than three sentences these days?

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