Look what I found! I decided to check my publisher's website today to make sure my new book was listed on their site. Lo and behold, not only was my new book, Royal Target, listed there, but so was my next book. Lockdown isn't even scheduled to come out until February 2009, so I never dreamed that the cover image would already be available on the internet.
I did know that the cover was done, but I hadn't yet seen a copy until I found it on Covenant's website.
Oddly enough, I spent the day working on another book, one that spins off of this one and Freefall.
I'm having to remind myself that it takes a great deal of discipline to write novels. I know that I will ultimately spend hours at the computer and that if I'm lucky, the story will take on a life of its own. I hope and pray that will happen, while dreading that possibility at the same time. I know that if a story is really going to work, it has to find its own life. The problem is that when that happens, I find myself putting everything else on hold so I can stay at my computer and find out how the story ends.
Seeing a cover image like this one, or anticipating my author copies arriving in the mail for Royal Target, reinforces the fact that all of the hard work is worth it. Now I just have to keep myself at my desk enough hours of the day so that I can get to the good part, whatever that might be.
5 comments:
Looks great, Traci!
Just want to say that I quite like this cover. I have my reservations about that hot pink one...(sorry)
hi trace,
i left you a blog award at my blog today if you want to come see. i also wrote some goodies about you/your authorship (is that a word? haha).
you rock,
kathleen :)
http://sogratefultobemormon.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/award-i-super-scribble-and-you-do-too/
Traci,
Im so excited for a new book! I loved royal target and in defense on the hot pink cover, as a seagull employee I have to say that the bright cover makes for a good conversation starter. People are drawn to it by the cover and then I get to sing its praises. :)
Hi, I'm a new fan. I was recently into the Twilight books, then I realized just how...moraly incorrect they were, so I decided to try some more LDS promoting books, read Royal Target, and loved it! Now I'm eager to read Lockdown, as soon as I can find in in my local deseret book...
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