Operation Navajo Book Blog Tour and #Giveaway #LoneStarLit

Posted January 26, 2021 by Lynn in Blog Tours, Giveaways / 2 Comments

OPERATION NAVAJO:

A Tracker Novel

by
Anita Dickason
Categories: Suspense / Political Thriller / Crime Fiction
Publisher: Mystic Circle Books
Date of Publication: August 30, 2020
Number of Pages: 320 pages
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“Whoever controls the flow of the money supply, irrespective of whether it’s fiat or gold currency is the one to fear.”

The imminent launch of the Feds gold-backed currency triggers more than fierce protests when a note is dropped into Federal Reserve Chairman Frank Littleton’s coat pocket. The cryptic message is a warning someone plans to assassinate him. A new Tracker agent and financial crimes expert joins forces with an undercover Interpol agent to infiltrate the inner sanctum of the Federal Reserve. The case turns deadly when the agents become the target for an assassin’s bullet. Stalked by a killer, can they survive to stop the assassination and prevent a global financial cataclysm?

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Designing Covers: My Interest in Graphic Design

Guest Post by Anita Dickason

 

I’m not sure which I enjoy more, writing or designing graphics. My interest in graphic design started after I wrote my first book, JFK Assassination Eyewitness: Rush to Conspiracy: The Real Facts of Lee Bowers’ Death. The book was published by Archway Publishing. I soon learned I had no control over the book. Nada! None! I don’t own the distribution rights or even the copyright to the cover.

 

I decided if I planned to continue writing, I wanted full control over what happened to my books. I created my own company, Mystic Circle Books & Designs, LLC. As a result, in retirement, it was back to school, taking online courses on writing, publishing, and graphic design. The design phase started with book covers but soon expanded into bookmarks, bookplates, social media banners, a column about writing and publishing titled On the Hunt, and then into videos. Yes, videos, I have a new addiction. To date, I’ve done about 35 on everything ranging from book trailers to Mother’s Day and even toilet paper missing in the stores. What fun.

 

For many of my designs, I deconstruct an image, then reassemble elements into a new image.  In Sentinels of the Night, the key issue was the owl’s eyes. Owls have a special place in mythology. To die is crossing over the owl’s bridge. I enhanced that mystique into the cover. They are the Messengers of Death.

 

 

 

In Going Gone!, the plot starts with the escape of a kidnapped six-year-old boy who is the son of a U.S. Senator. My heroine, a private investigator, inadvertently rescues the child on a foggy backroad in East Texas. I should mention I like strong female characters, and my heroines kick ass. I deconstructed three images to create the final cover.

 

The truck emerging from a bomb blast was an image for the book trailer for A u 7 9. I had to remove the motorcycle and helicopters from the background. I extracted an 18-wheeler from another photo. I also added a bit of special effects to the truck. I did the same for the SWAT team. I added a larger helicopter and enhanced the smoke and flames, pulling them around the truck.

 

NOT DEAD was complicated. The cover was created using elements from six images. The main character, the doll, needed a lot of work. This is the doll portrayed in the book. After extracting the doll from the original image, I enhanced the damage to her face, added an eye, deepened the grey in the hair, and added highlights around her throat and front of the dress. When I enlarged the image, I didn’t like the appearance of the hand against her dress. I removed the original one and built a new hand.

Operation Navajo was interesting. The plot deals with cybercrime. When I reversed the image, the mouse was on the wrong side of the keyboard. I had to move it to the other side. I also built a new pyramid from the back of a dollar bill, and accented the glow behind the pyramid, then dropped it onto the computer screen on the desk and added a 3D effect to the final image.

My designs can be viewed on Pinterest and my videos on my website.

 

 

Award-winning Author Anita Dickason is a twenty-two-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department. She served as a patrol officer, undercover narcotics detective, advanced accident investigator, tactical officer, and first female sniper on the Dallas SWAT team.
Anita writes about what she knows: cops and crime. Her police background provides an unending source of inspiration for her plots and characters. Many incidents and characters portrayed in her books are based on personal experience. For her, the characters are the fun part of writing as she never knows where they will take her. There is always something out of the ordinary in her stories.
In Anita’s debut novel, Sentinels of the Night, she created an elite FBI Unit, the Trackers. Since then, she has added three more Tracker crime thrillers, Going Gone!, A u 7 9, and Operation Navajo. The novels are not a series and can be read in any order. As a Texas author, many of Anita’s books are based in Texas, or there is a link to Texas. When she stepped outside of the Tracker novels and wrote, Not Dead, she selected Meridian, a small community in central Texas for the location.
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3RD PRIZE: e-book of OPERATION NAVAJO
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Posted January 26, 2021 by Lynn in Blog Tours, Giveaways / 2 Comments

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2 responses to “Operation Navajo Book Blog Tour and #Giveaway #LoneStarLit

  1. Thank you for hosting my book. I love the presentation. Each day of the tour has been a new discovery, and so far I have not been disappointed. Your blog site is another I am adding to my list to watch. Book bingo, what a, excuse the pun, novel idea, and that’s only one of many features your site offers. Wow! Kudos to you.