Monday 6 February 2012

Sneak peek


Wondered if you’d like a sneak preview of the cover for Time’s Echo, which is out in September …

This is a "time slip", written under my own name, as you can see, and it’s a major departure from category romance for me.  So a very different cover from my others!

Here’s the provisional ‘blurb’ to give you some idea of what will be on the back cover:

York , 1575: Hawise Aske smiles at a stranger in the market, and sets in train a story of obsession and jealousy, of love and hate and warped desire.  Drowned as a witch, Hawise pays a high price for that smile, but for a girl like her in Elizabethan York, there is nowhere to go and nowhere for her to hide.

Four centuries later, Grace Trewe travels the world, trying to outrun the memories of being caught up in the Boxing Day tsunami.  Her stay in York is meant to be a brief one.

But in York Grace discovers that time can twist and turn in ways she never imagined.  Drawn inexorably into Hawise’s life,  Grace finds that this time she cannot move on.  Will she too  be engulfed in the power of the past?  

I love this cover.  To me, it’s intriguing and conveys the ‘feel’ of the story, and I was thrilled when I saw it. The point of a cover is to tell the reader what kind of story they’re going to get when they open the book, and I think this cover ‘says’ "time slip", the way the cover of We’ll Always Have Paris, for instance, ‘says’ category romance. 

What do you think?  Is this the kind of cover that would make you pick up a book, or do you prefer your novels with a clearly contemporary or clearly historical setting?

12 comments:

  1. Love it and can't wait to read it! Mx

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  2. This kind of cover sure makes me pick it..I love historical..romance ;)

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  3. The cover and title both work really well for me - even if I didn't know it was by you (which obviously I do!), I would pick this off the shelf because it looks like the kind of novel I really enjoy reading.

    Hurry up, September :)

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  4. Oh my goodness! The words on the cover "She reached out from the past and whispered her name..." sucked me right in before I'd read a word of the blurb! I love time slip novels, and I so want to read this one. I am often drawn by a book's cover, and this one has an aged look to it that is appealing. The old books and the apple are an intriguing combination. It would definitely attract my attention on a bookstore's shelf.

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  5. Definitely one for me. I love time slip novels and the blurb and the cover are irresistible.

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  6. Oh, thank you all for commenting! Am so relieved you like it. And Alexandra, I'll be forwarding your comment about the shout line, as I wasn't sure about this and I am now going to have to admit that I was completely wrong!

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  7. Sounds an interesting story! And the cover would definitely make me pick it up. But the shout line is the most intriguing element!

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  8. I love it. The Elizabethan-ish font underscores the period - we know where we're headed. And those golden curlicues around the edge are a great touch I also love the shout line. That would be enough for me to pick it up. Colours are gorgeous and weathered -nice. Not sure what the apple conveys other than temptation? But it really doesn't matter. The whole cover is very appealing.

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  9. The apple is directly relevant to the story, Louise - but of course nobody knows that looking at the cover for the first time. So it's interesting to get reactions cold from people who don't know the story at all.

    I'm fond of the gold embellishments too!

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  10. Oh, this looks FABULOUS, Pam. I want it now. Right now.

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