***Woa.***
So, I was rattling through my email the other day, and my buddy Jenny Keller Ford sends me a message saying: “Did you see the cover with your name on it yet?”
So, yeah, I scrambled through all my emails, searching frantically, and low and behold… there it was.
The contract felt pretty real, but let me tell you—seeing your name in big bold print with cover art…
I called my kids in. My five-year old said, “Oh, okay. Can I have a snack?”
The Monomaniacal Middle Grade Reviewer looked at it, gave me a hug, and went on about his business.
My eight year old, Thank Goodness, stared at it with wide eyes and a big poop-eating grin on his face, saying, “That is soooo cool!”
Later on, my husband came home and finally got to see it. I can’t remember his exact words, but it was something like, “Wow. This is real, isn’t it?”
I think he actually needed something to validate it in his mind. I tried to explain what an anthology was, but until he saw the cover, I don’t think he actually “got it.”
So, without further ado, here is the cover for the Make Believe Anthology.
So, what do you think? Pretty cool, huh?
Jennifer M Eaton 
That is one gosh darn good lookin’ cover! Congrats, you!!!! 😀 😀
Thanks! I’m really tickled with it!
Wow! What a great feeling that must be. Congratulations!
It looks really good, by the way.
Thank you so much! I love it!
congratulations…..thanks for checking out my blog..
No fair. Why can’t that happen to me? Aside from the fact that I don’t work hard…and probably don’t have what it takes, but still! Congratulations – what a rush that must be!
It is awesome, and if you really work at it, and go for it, you can make it happen.
Fantastic! What a gorgeous cover. It is enticing, beckoning you to open the cover! Congratulations!
Oooo! It beckons! Awesome. Thanks.
Congratulations! That’s an awesome cover.
Whoa!! Beautiful cover design – and what a wonderful thrill to see your very own personal name right there in plain sight on it! Congratulations!
Thank you so much! It’s very exciting
Well… congratulations are in order… I can imagine the excitement when you laid eyes on the cover for the first time…
Very Very exciting. Thanks for stopping by!
Congratulations Jen!
Congratulations Jen, beautiful cover, what a thrill.
Congratulations!!! That is an amazing accomplishment…and the cover looks pretty darn cool to boot!
That is so cool! Congrats!
Thank you so much!
AMAZZZZZING!!! 😀 Congrats muchos to you!
Pink.
Thank you soooo much! 🙂 🙂
SO COOL love the red riding hood feel, congrats Jen!
Thanks. Funny, one stipulation was that it could NOT be about Red Riding hood.
Just saw the cover on Joan’s site. It’s fantastic.
Yay! There’s so much love being spread out there. Thanks!
The cover looks great Jenn. Congrats! 🙂
Thanks so much, Wendy!
So excited for you and Jenny! That cover is amazing! It will seem like forever before I get to finally read it though. But I guess I can wait. Good job!
Thanks, yes it seems like forever, but they have my schedule pretty booked up until the release date. Lots to do!
That is a great, eye-catching cover! Can’t wait to read the book! 🙂
Thanks so much! I can’t wait to be read!
Congrats on allllllllll your hard work paying off:) ~CHEERS!!!
Breaking out the champagne!
Looks fab. When is it going on sale? And is it an e-book, in the shops, or both?
It is scheduled to go on sale in the beginning of December. It will initially be an ebook, but there is a clause in the contract for print versions if the sales are good. J.Taylor normally does both, but the anthologies, so far, have only been ebooks.
I’ll definitely look out for it. And good luck with it all.
🙂 Thanks so much 🙂
It’s freaky wonderful, isn’t it? Congrats and happy dances to my fellow antho-buddy!!
Uber Freaky! Dancing with you Australia!
It’s really stunning! Love the reactions by your family–sounds like something out of my life. (I got blank looks from some when I was bouncing off the wall, having just received an offer of a publishing contract. I had to spell out in great detail why that was a big deal. At least hubby shared my joy!). Congratulations on your cover reveal and yes, this is really real. REALLY. Well done!
Thanks so much! It’s very exciting.
This is wonderful!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!! Just wait until you actually hold that first book in your hands … you will cry [happy tears] trust me. There’s nothing like it. Well except compared to first holding those sweet kiddos. 😀
Now … can I have a snack? 😉
Ha Ha! Would you like a cookie, or will you be a good girl and ask for a healthy snack?
It looks fabulous. And, with both you and Jenny featured? Priceless to you, I’m sure.
Congrats, again.
Oh, yes. We’ve been through a lot. It means so much that we got published together. I was so worried one of us would make it and the other not, and then I’d have to be all bumbed for myself, but happy for her.
There’s nothing, NOTHING, like the feeling of seeing your name on the front cover for the first time!
Yes. It is one of those “pinch me” moments
Congrats & the cover is stunning.
Thanks so much, Emma!
Visually stunning cover. It totally has a reimagined fairy tale feel. Congrats!
Yes, it did, although it doesn’t look like any of us actually went that route. Funny.
gorgeous cover. excited for you.
Thanks so much, Jessica!
Top billing! Score. 🙂
Yay! Excited!
That’s really cool, congratulations.
Thanks so much, Elliot!
What an amazing feeling that must have been. I’m sure you’re still riding the high. 🙂
Doing the happy dance all over the house!
Congratulations!
Thank you!
Just dropped by from Jenny Keller Ford’s blog to pass along my congratulations! The cover is awesome and I can’t wait to read all the wonderful stories. 🙂
Thank you so much, and thanks for stopping by!
Ah, Jenn, I can’t believe it! You and me together. What a fabulous journey it’s been so far and we still have even months to go before publication! It seems so far away, but it will be upon us before you know it. I can’t believe this is really happening. Doing the snoopy dance with coffee in hand. Good going, girlfriend! I’m thrilled beyond words for you.
Be careful! That coffee is hot… Don’t spill it! You wouldn’t want to ruin you happy day!
Congratulations – it looks beautiful.
Thank you so much. It’s pretty cool
wootwoot! your name looks ten shades of awesome up there! Jumbo CONGRATS to you, my antho-buddy! 😀
It does look pretty dern skippy, doesn’t it? Your name doesn’t look all that shabby either!
Yay! Gosh, the happy feelings you must have… Way to go! 😀
Thanks, Darlene. It’s hard to describe. It’s kind of tingly
Brilliant!!!!! 🙂
Xx
🙂 🙂 🙂
That’s amazing!! Great cover! Congratulations to you and Jenny and all the other writers!
Thanks so much! We are all really stoked.
Truly awesome. Again, my deepest congratulations (maybe tinged with a little/a lot of envy). 🙂
Awe… no envy. Just think “I’m next!” Just don’t give up. Believe in yourself and be persistant.
Thanks. I’m at least consistently writing (and polishing), hoping to get stuff out in the next few months. After years of not writing, I’m making good headway the last several months. 🙂
Good for you! I took a twenty-year hiatus. It felt good to get back.
Awesomeness abounds.
Thanks Tristan!
THAT is absolutely, stupendously, supercalifragilisticexpialodociously wonderful!!! Woo Hoo!!! I love it – huge kudos to you, Jennifer – and to Jenny, too! Awesome! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Thanks so much Julie. And congrat back to you. You had a great week as well!