preorders – Neve Maslakovic

Cover Reveal 📚

Here it is, the ebook cover of the prequel novella to the Soul Garden Mystery series… One Feeling After Another, coming your way October 29, 2026!

Book cover for One Feeling After Another by Neve Maslakovic, a Soul Garden Mystery novella. The cover has a textured red background, cream-colored title text, and teal series lettering. A teal medallion featuring an illustrated mushroom is outlined in gold.

I’m quite happy with how this one turned out. The eye-catching red of the background signals the genre — especially important this time around, since the word MURDER is not in the title.

I wanted the cover to sit comfortably next to That Murder Feeling (Book 1), while doing its own novella thing. Enter the teal medallion with the mushroom. It hints at the genre-bending, whimsical, feelings-as-clues aspect of the story and ties the design to the Book 1 cover, which has a teal-and-orange color scheme. The plan for future books in the series is this: four medallions for novels; single medallion for novellas.

I particularly like the thin gold-foil circle around the medallion, which makes the whole thing pop and is another visual callback to the Book 1 cover and its gold-foil framing.

The ebook has already started going up for preorders in a few stores, listed below. You can find the full list of retailers here.

You can also request the ebook from your local library — it should make its way over to Hoopla and other digital libraries. (There’s no way of estimating how long that might take…books just sort of trickle over.)

Will there be a thin, novella-width paperback to go with the ebook? The answer is… yes! Stay tuned.

Thanks for reading,

Neve

Happy New Year

Seasons greetings, friends! Here we are, the last week of 2025 and the final newsletter of the year.

The wraparound cover for the print version of That Murder Feeling should be arriving in my mailbox any day now. In the meantime, everything’s on track for the January 13 release of the ebook (full list of retailers can be found here) and reviews are starting to trickle in on Goodreads, NetGalley, and elsewhere.

Many thanks to those of you who’ve already read the ARC and posted a review. Much appreciated!

Fellow author Carolynn Gockel also has a book releasing in January, a sci-fi time travel adventure. The ebook is available for preorder on Kindle. It looks to be a fun read and is on my TBR list!

Over on Mastodon, we had a holiday thread going and one of the questions was “Do you have a favorite holiday treat this month?” Everyone had a different answer, from hot chocolate to eggnog to snickerdoodles. In our household, here’s a cookie that’s as much of a Christmas/New Year’s staple as a fir tree. Bear in mind that I have no talent for taking photos of food, but I did my best with the cellphone camera.

These are Serbian walnut cookies (vanilice). The recipe listed on Food52 is similar to our family’s, with a few small tweaks: we use butter instead of lard and skip the lemon zest; also, you can order vanilla sugar on Amazon, you don’t have to make your own. The recipe calls for shredded walnuts — you need a nut grinder — but the walnuts found in grocery stores tend to be… not great. We order ours from Tierra Farm and they’re so good I snack on them daily.

The vanilice cookies are delicious with or without the jam filling, traditionally rose hip or apricot. Our 21-year-old loves these, so they never last long in our house!

Wishing you a joyful 2026,

Neve