So here’s what every­one said about Spider’s Bite, along with the final ver­sion of the cover:

Nalini Singh: “Spider’s Bite is a raw, gritty and com­pelling walk on the wild side, one that had me hooked from the first page. Jen­nifer Estep has cre­ated a fas­ci­nat­ing hero­ine in the morally ambigu­ous Gin Blanco — I can’t wait to read the next chap­ter of Gin’s story.”

Lisa Shearin: “A sexy and edgy thriller that keeps you turn­ing the pages. In Spider’s Bite, Jen­nifer Estep turns up the heat and sus­pense with Gin Blanco, an assas­sin whose wit is as sharp as her sil­ver­stone knives. When Gin is double-crossed, framed, and her han­dler mur­dered, she’ll leave no stone unturned and no enemy breath­ing in her quest for revenge. Spider’s Bite leaves you dying for more.”

Lilith Saint­crow: “Watch out world, here comes Gin Blanco. Funny, smart, and dead sexy.”

Jackie Kessler: “I love root­ing for the bad guy — espe­cially when she’s also the hero­ine.
Spider’s Bite is a siz­zling com­bi­na­tion of mys­tery, magic, and mur­der. Kudos to Jen­nifer Estep!”

Adrian Phoenix: “Jen­nifer Estep is a dark, lyri­cal, and fresh voice in urban fan­tasy. Brim­ming with high octane-fueled action, labyrinthine con­spir­a­cies, and char­ac­ters who will steal your heart, Spider’s Bite is an orig­i­nal, fast-paced, tense, and sexy read. Gin is an assas­sin to die for.”

As you can see, Nalini’s blurb is on the cover. All the blurbs are so great that I wish we could put them all the cover. But alas, that is not how it works in the book business.

So what hap­pens to the other blurbs? Well, I imag­ine that they’ll get used in other places, like on the back cover and in the pages in the front of the book where the author’s other titles/reviews/accolades are listed. And, of course, in Pocket’s var­i­ous mar­ket­ing mate­ri­als for the books and in mine too — on my book­marks, fly­ers, Web site, etc. Hon­estly, I prob­a­bly won’t know exactly how all the blurbs are used until I get my author copies of Spider’s Bite.

Still, I just want to take a moment to say thanks to every­one who read the book and gave me a blurb. I really do appre­ci­ate it. You guys rock!

I also want to give a shout-out to artist Tony Mauro, who designed the truly awe­some cover for Spider’s Bite — and the one for Web of Lies that is just as good. Hope­fully, I’ll be able to share that one soon.

In the mean­time, I’m going to go bask in the glow of my blurb good­ness.