Hi everyone -- I haven't posted too often, but have been a regular reader. I've envied everyone's cover -- and finally I have one of my own. I even have a title and an author photo (when it rains it pours). In the interest of full disclosure: the designer refused to send me the cover until I sent an author photo!
My new title is "Prisoners in the Palace" which I love. Part of my story is about the rise of newspapers and scandal sheets in 1837 Victorian England so my editor wanted the cover to reference newspapers in a funky way. It's hard to tell in the jpg -- but the cover is actually printed on foil -- it is shiny and screams bling bling.
I'm a little nervous about Chronicle's decision not to put the title on the cover -- but it will be on the spine and on the back (I also got to write the back cover copy because they wanted short little articles that related to the story -- like "Mystery Girl dances with Prince at Victoria's Ball").
Any thoughts?
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My new title is "Prisoners in the Palace" which I love. Part of my story is about the rise of newspapers and scandal sheets in 1837 Victorian England so my editor wanted the cover to reference newspapers in a funky way. It's hard to tell in the jpg -- but the cover is actually printed on foil -- it is shiny and screams bling bling.
I'm a little nervous about Chronicle's decision not to put the title on the cover -- but it will be on the spine and on the back (I also got to write the back cover copy because they wanted short little articles that related to the story -- like "Mystery Girl dances with Prince at Victoria's Ball").
Any thoughts?
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The design, though is right up my alley! I LOVE it!
I hope you make journals with it as giveaway items. (Heck, I'd buy one!)
Is this book coming out in the UK at all because it sounds right up my cul-de-sac?
Thanks for the kind words!!!
Okay, well that's just ... thick.
I apologise for the stupidity of some British publishers.
Yeah, you're not wrong unfortunately.
The only possible grounds I could think of for such a decision is if you'd decided to write Queen Victoria as a gum-chewing cheerleader whose first appearance on the page is marked by the words: "S'up, Albert? You're like, so hawt, and Buck Palace is, like, totally bitching. Let's go get lattes - you can drive me in your rad carriage, dude, and I'll even let you check out my rack."
In such a situation and as an honour bound English woman, I would have to challenge you to a duel to the death. With pistols.
Otherwise, it's a stupid decision made by stupid people who are stupid. If you like, I can go to their offices and tut at them in disapproval.
When Heather Brewer's book EIGHTH GRADE BITES came out, it, too, didn't have the title on the cover; it depended on the strength of the cover to carry the interest. And it did. In spades.
If the booksellers don't like it, they'll tell the publisher. That happened to me; the original HUNGER cover was spiked by a bookseller, so we went back to the drawing board -- with phenomenal results. :)