Jessie: In New Hampshire where ice is out of the lake and robins are flitting round the garden!
To quote The A-Team, don’t you just love it when a plan comes together?
A few months ago I announced that I’m currently writing a new historical series. The first book, Whispers Beyond the Veil, will launch September, 2016. Here’s what the publisher’s back cover matter has to say:
First in a dazzling new historical mystery series featuring Ruby Proulx, a psychic with a questionable past who suddenly finds her future most uncertain…
Canada, 1898. The only life Ruby Proulx has ever known is that of a nomad, traveling across the country with her snake-oil salesman father. She dreams of taking root somewhere, someday, but, until she can, she makes her way by reading tarot cards. Yet she never imagined her own life would take such a turn…
After one of her father’s medical “miracles” goes deadly wrong, Ruby evades authorities by hiding in the seaside resort town of Old Orchard, Maine, where her estranged Aunt Honoria owns the Hotel Belden, a unique residence that caters to Spiritualists—a place where Ruby should be safe as long as she can keep her dark secret hidden.
But Ruby’s plan begins to crumble after a psychic investigator checks into the hotel and senses Ruby is hiding more than she’s letting on. Now Ruby must do what she can to escape both his attention and Aunt Honoria’s insistence that she has a true gift, before she loses her precious new home and family forever…
But what I really wanted to share is the front cover. I have loved all my Berkley covers but this one just makes my heart sing. Early in the process I sent a Pinterest board to my editor filled with images I loved from the Gilded Age. I also sent a letter with suggestions. In my mind’s eye I saw the beach, the pier, a young woman in a red dress with her back turned to the reader. I imagined her holding a parasol and looking off into the distance. I envisioned a filigree frame edging the art and an ornate font spelling out the title and my name. Below is what my editor sent to me.
Readers, did you ever have a time when things turned out exactly how you imagined they would? Writers, do you have a favorite cover?
