Point of Origin Draft Cover

Point of Origin, the fourth national park thriller from Sean Smith, is expected for release later this year.  Cover art is already being designed for the novel set in Glacier National Park.

The story is about a massive wildfire that wipes out the Alzheimer's cure. Ranger Grayson Cole fights wildfire, corporate greed, and eco-terrorists to uncover who might want to destroy the cure to this dreaded disease.

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Sean Smith is an award winning conservationist and author. He is a former National Park Ranger at Yellowstone, Glacier, and the North Cascades. He is a TEDx speaker, and private pilot. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1989 with a degree in Political Science. He got his master's in Natural Resources Management from Central Washington University in 1996. He currently runs Washington State's efforts to reduce and eliminate toxic chemicals from consumer products and serves as the Mayor Pro Tem of Covington.

He has been writing stories and books since he was a child and currently writes national park thrillers from the shadow of Mount Rainier.

All his novels can be found here: Mr. Sean D Smith

Unleashing Colter's Hell: Cover Contest Semi-Finalist

November 23, 2013: Unleashing Colter's Hell is a semi-finalist in the Authorsdb cover contest.  The thriller is one of 16 chosen out of the more than a 130 covers submitted in the mystery, thriller, and suspense category. 

The semi-finalists are listed alphabetically here. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to find Unleashing Colter's Hell.  Give it 5 Stars!

Unleashing Colter's Hell's recognition in the Authorsdb cover contest follows the novel's winning the Reader's Favorite 2013 Gold Medal in the mystery and thriller category.

Unleashing Colter's Hell makes a great gift, get the award-winning thriller here.

LOST CAUSE COVERS: HELP ME PICK ONE

November 10, 2013: Below are seven draft covers for LOST CAUSE, the follow up novel to the award winning thriller Unleashing Colter's Hell.

Beginning at Antietam and racing through Gettysburg, Wilson's Creek and other battlefields, LOST CAUSE is a chase to find a relic supposedly owned by Robert E. Lee which can give the finder the power to start the second Civil War. Look for it in 2015.

I need your help picking a cover.  Which one do you like?

Cover A

Cover B

 

Cover C

Cover D

Cover E

Cover F



Cover G

Latest Lost Cause Cover

October 21, 2013: Below is the latest cover art for Lost Cause, the follow up thriller to the award winning novel Unleashing Colter's Hell.  What do you think? 

Lost Cause: the Next Grayson Cole Thriller

Latest Cover Design

Here is the latest cover design for Unleashing Colter's Hell, my new novel. Set in Yellowstone, Unleashing Colter's Hell is about a fanatic sent to the Wyoming wilderness to trigger a Yellowstone eruption, spelling the end of the United States. A lone park ranger named Grayson Cole and Dianne Harris, a rookie FBI agent are all that stand between the world and its destruction.

Look for the book to be out in paperback soon.

Let me know your thoughts on the cover in the comment section.

Colter's Hell Draft Book Cover

Here is the next draft cover of Unleashing Colter's Hell. This image plays on the threat to the park which is the central focus of the book. Let me know what you think.

FYI. The book's release is still set for late fall early winter.

Stay Tuned.

Draft Book Covers: Part One

Unleashing Colter's Hell is expected for release soon. The past eighteen months have been spent working on the story. It's now time to focus on other aspects of the novel like agent proposals and cover art.

A good book cover can make or break a novel. To that end, in the next two blog posts will be draft covers.

Here are the first two.

Number one is a ghosted Yellowstone park map, with intriguing marks drawn upon it. The book's title image is similar to the park stamps used in the park service passport program.

The second cover is in the style of an old leather field journal with a ranger's simple flat hat.

Which one are you more likely to pick up? Let me know what you think in the comments section.

Thanks.