{"id":2936,"date":"2013-08-19T13:45:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T17:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/?p=2936"},"modified":"2013-08-19T13:45:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T17:45:30","slug":"cover-reveal-dibyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/index.php\/cover-reveal-dibyan\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Reveal for author Troy Aaron Ratliff!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am pleased and honored to be able to help reveal the cover for author <strong>Troy Aaron Ratliff<\/strong>&#8216;s first novel, <em><strong>Do I Bother You at Night?<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em>which will be released on October 4, 2013. The book is a blend of Horror and Science-Fiction with literary themes and in a literary style.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the blurb:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They say nothing ever happens in Kansas.\u00a0 Sylvester Petersen used to think so too.\u00a0 That is, until a mysterious new neighbor moves in next door, seemingly out of nowhere.\u00a0 His handful of friends \u2013 people who tried to help him cope with the sudden death of his wife \u2013 think that it might be an opportunity for him to get reacquainted with the world outside his farmhouse and to build a new relationship with his neighbor.\u00a0 But that idea is soon snuffed out as strange events begin to happen around him.\u00a0 None of them wrong.\u00a0 Just strange: driving in the middle of the night, the sulfur-like odor coming off of him, the fact he doesn\u2019t talk to anyone in the area.<\/p>\n<p>And what about that dog?<\/p>\n<p>Sylvester chooses the logical explanation and ignores the peculiar behavior.\u00a0 But when other oddities start to happen \u2013 the kind that affects Sylvester directly \u2013 he begins to worry.\u00a0 His reasoning dwindles and his growing fear points to his neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>Where is that stray dog going?<\/p>\n<p>After enough time, Sylvester starts to see and hear what the people of the area have been muttering about: Unexplainable blue light, corn crops moving on their own\u2026the slaughtered cattle entirely too close to home.<\/p>\n<p>And that stray dog that keeps getting fatter and fatter\u2026<\/p>\n<p>At the peak of summer, and with the walls closing in, Sylvester experiences something that will take him to the brink and haunt you forever.<\/p>\n<p>Bathed in loss, terror, and human spirit, Do I Bother You at Night? will be a story you won\u2019t forget and one that will keep you up at night.<\/p>\n<p>Love thy neighbor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And here is the fantabulous cover:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2937\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/index.php\/cover-reveal-dibyan\/do-i-bother-you-at-night-cover\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Do-I-Bother-You-at-Night-Cover.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,900\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Do I Bother You at Night Cover\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Do-I-Bother-You-at-Night-Cover-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Do-I-Bother-You-at-Night-Cover.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2937\" alt=\"Troy Aaron Ratliff's Do I Bother You at Night Cover\" src=\"http:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Do-I-Bother-You-at-Night-Cover.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Do-I-Bother-You-at-Night-Cover.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Do-I-Bother-You-at-Night-Cover-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Troy, read his answers to <a title=\"The Questions with Troy Aaron Ratliff: Author, Artist, Photographer\" href=\"http:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/index.php\/the-questions-ratliff\/\">The Questions<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am pleased and honored to be able to help reveal the cover for author Troy Aaron Ratliff&#8216;s first novel, Do I Bother You at Night?,\u00a0which will be released on October 4, 2013. 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