Alpennia Blog: On the horizon, I see a book approaching

[hrj]

The beta-reader comments for Mother of Souls have been coming in, and tomorrow I poke the remaining readers (except the ones I've already talked to about an extension) and start working on revisions.

But there's an even stronger sign that we have a real live book here: Mother of Souls now has a Goodreads listing where you can join the dozen people already proclaiming their plans to read it. (OK, there are also a couple of beta-readers there boasting that they're already doing so.) And you can pre-order Mother of Souls on Amazon now (the hard-copy, Amazon Kindle release is always a while after regular release to drive e-book sales to the Bella website).

And because I always seem to do these things in non-standard order, here's the cover not-really-a-reveal-because-people-have-already-seen-it. I really like how the design echoes the series theme (with the fabric drape) while being clearly distinct in color scheme. There are enough different things going on in the story that brainstorming for cover images was hard, but given the importance of music, I think this should represent it well.

Comments

[lferion]

I really like the covers - the fabric drape is an effective theme for me certainly. Looking forward to reading it!

[hrj.livejournal.com]

We may eventually run out of distinctively different jewel-tone drapery, though! I've already earmarked royal blue for Mistress of Shadows. I could see a nice dark gold working well.