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Cheating Sunrise – test reading has started

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I’m in that intriguing, exciting period (which usually lasts about 5 minutes) between finishing the last chapter and entering the test-reading phase. Right now, I’m doing the non-writing stuff which is mostly just me sending the book out to a few people to test read.

I will be going back to re-read and edit the whole book several times myself, to get it as polished as it needs to be before I go into publishing mode.

This is a very rough estimate, but I reckon I’ll have Cheating Sunrise ready for pre-order within a month. It’s going to be on Amazon Kindle for digital, and also available in paperback. I’ll do a back-cover reveal before the book goes on sale, but I’ll probably leave that for a couple of weeks while I’m editing.

The book doesn’t have its own page on this site yet, so I’ll also be sorting that out very soon.

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Cheating Sunrise – cover evolution

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Here’s the short story of the evolutionary process of the cover for my fourth novel, Cheating Sunrise, which is due to be published during the first quarter of 2016.

My original idea was this rough mixture of basic images, with text in the same font that I had chosen for Midnight Cocktail. I sent it to the cover artist with a few lines asking for something that looked vaguely like that kind of composition.

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He came back very quickly with this sketch, which was mainly to confirm that I was happy with the basic design, which I was.

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The first colour draft that he sent me was pretty much exactly what I was thinking of when I put that first rough image together.

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This is what it looked like before the final details were added:

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I asked for a few minor changes, which I’ll leave for you to spot, and I had my finished cover:Cheating Sunrise front cover

 

Once again, many thanks to Nikolai Ostertag for his great work.

Fourth novel – cover reveal

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Here’s the cover for my soon-to-be-released fourth novel, Cheating Sunrise. It’s the second book in the Blood:Lust series, and that’s pretty much all I’m giving away right now…

The cover was created by Nikolai Ostertag.

Cheating Sunrise front cover

Click on the image above to open a full size view of it.

I went back to the artist responsible for the Midnight Cocktail cover because I wanted some image continuity, also because Nikolai is a great artist, fun to work with, and very efficient at producing exactly what I ask for.

More details, including a release date, will be posted here soon. I’m anticipating a release in the first quarter of 2016, but a lot depends on feedback from test readers. If you would like to be involved with that, please let me know via the contact page on this site.