Reviewers needed: OLIVIA

Jan 23 update: We have enough reviewers for OLIVIA now. Thanks! If you would like to be a reviewer, please stay tuned for my next review request for Christ's Gifts to Women. Will post in February.

Yes, I'm looking for reviewers for Julie Wright's book OLIVIA, because she is my co-author in The Newport Ladies Book Club series.

But this request is a bit different. I'd actually like to find 10-15 reviewers who are willing to review the WHOLE series. Every three months, a different book will be released. So I'll send you each book as it comes out.

Books will be:
OLIVIA by Julie Wright (Feb 2012)
DAISY by Josi S. Kilpack (May 2012)
PAIGE by Annette Lyon (Summer 2012)
ATHENA by Heather Moore (Fall/Winter)

For more information on this unique series, visit The Newport Ladies Book Club blog.

Reviews need to be posted on your blog and review sites such as Amazon, Goodreads, Deseretbook.com, Seagullbook.com, etc. (it's really easy to cut & paste once the review is written).

Please let me know if you are interested, and I'll send you more details.

heather @ hbmoore (dot) com

Cover Reveal: Daughters of Jared

I'm excited to post the cover for my upcoming novel, Daughters of Jared. Release date: May 2012.


ABOUT THE BOOK:

Daughters of Jared

From the Book of Ether comes a haunting story of two royal sisters. The elder sister, Ash, will do anything to bring her father, King Jared II, back to the throne. The younger sister, Naiva, only wants to save her family from destruction. Greed and the quest for power blend together in H.B. Moore’s volatile new novel, Daughters of Jared. The bond of sisterhood becomes precariously fragile when one man . . . named Akish . . . falls in love with the younger sister, Naiva. Yet he chooses to marry the elder sister.

The sisters’ hearts are divided. And when Ash becomes queen, seduced by the promise of power and wealth, Naiva watches her world crumble away. She sees only one way out. But it will require forsaking all that she holds dear.

Serialization of Women of the Book of Mormon

Meridian Magazine is doing a serialization of some chapters from Women of the Book of Mormon.
You can read the first chapter, on Sariah, here.

Also, in other news, Land of Inheritance (Whitney Award Winner, 2007), is now in paperback!


My editing company is hosting another LIVE CRITIQUE workshop on March 3, 2012. More details are on the PEG Workshop blog. Instructors include Lu Ann Staheli, Annette Lyon, Josi Kilpack & Julie Wright.

Submission letter for Adam and Eve

Below I've posted my submission letter for my latest manuscript: Adam & Eve. It will give you an idea of the submission process.

January 6, 2012

Dear [Editor],

I’m pleased to submit my new historical novel, In the Beginning: Adam & Eve, complete at 82,000 words.

Many questions have been asked and speculated upon pertaining to our first parents, Adam and Eve, and what may have transpired in the Garden of Eden. Answers are difficult to come by, but in all my research I have sensed one thing more clearly than any other. Eve made an informed and intelligent choice. Does this mean that she and Adam understood all the ramifications of eating the forbidden fruit? Perhaps not all, but enough that she knew the choice had to be made in order to bring about the human race.

In Women of the Old Testament, Camille Fronk Olson quotes Deborah Sawyer, saying, “Let us put to death the Eve of patriarchal fantasy, and raise up in her stead the Eve who, created in the image of God, takes responsibility for human progress, liberates herself and her husband from the playground of paradise and engages with the real world” (13).

It is with this objective in mind that I re-created the story of Adam and Eve in fictional form, with the intent to bring to light the true nature of Eve and her choice in the garden—a choice which became the second most significant event in humanity, second only to the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

I would also encourage the evaluators to read the Preface, it will explain some turns of plot that take place in the first 100 pages. I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Heather Moore