…of ‘By The Time You Read This…’Wow.What can I say? My name on a book.
A sort of REAL book.
I’m told its only a mock up of what the book will look like, but by gum, it look’s real.
The cover has not even been agreed yet, but by gum it look’s real.
I think I need to take a deep breath…
My Editor announced she was sending a courier with a mock up of my POTENTIAL BOOK COVER over to my office.Of course this was a HUGE deal in my world, so the lovely new receptionist was on strict orders to ‘Call me as soon as it arrived’. This ’special delivery’ needless to say, arrived whilst I indulged in idle chit chat away from my desk, so I returned from said chat to find this huge envelope on my desk.My Book Cover.Okay, before the drum rolls begin, I have a little confession to make… Just before Christmas, I nagged my Editor into sending me a little sample, so I knew that it would basically be a different version of that. Still, I left my office in search of someplace private because I didn’t want an audience watching my every move as I struggled to remove bits of envelope.And then I opened it. And I realised that I didn’t hate it!Good start. But then, maybe I am the wrong person to ask about it because well, I just couldn’t get past the fact that my name was on like, a real book (sort of real). I mean, the ISBN code’s on the back AND according to the back cover, my book is part of Sustainable Reading!!!! Okay, I wasn’t quite sure what this was until a clever colleague mentioned it had something to do with being green… well that’s got to be good, right? So what’s the cover like? I am a bit reluctant to say until the final decision has been made… wouldn’t want to get too attached to it now…
Welcome! I’m Lola Jaye and my first novel By The Time You Read This… is out in July 2008. This Blog will continue where the first blog www.upadiary.blogspot.com ended. You see, that Blog was about the journey to getting a publishing contract and THIS Blog will be about the journey since then. A diary that will cover stuff like;
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