MORE COVER ART...
It's arrived. That gorgeous box of books containing the first edition (the UK hard back library edition) of THE SHEIKH'S UNSUITABLE BRIDE.
Opening the box, getting that first sight of the cover art is always a fraught moment.
Will it be fulfil the image that you have you in your head of your characters?
Will it feel like the story you wrote?
Or will it be a nightmare, so wrong that you want to weep?
It's arrived. That gorgeous box of books containing the first edition (the UK hard back library edition) of THE SHEIKH'S UNSUITABLE BRIDE.Opening the box, getting that first sight of the cover art is always a fraught moment.
Will it be fulfil the image that you have you in your head of your characters?
Will it feel like the story you wrote?
Or will it be a nightmare, so wrong that you want to weep?
Well, this is a bit of a mixed bag. This was my vision of my heroine, Diana Metcalfe.
Not that close, to be honest.
Not that close, to be honest.
She's a larky girl with curly hair, but it's a lot better than some of my cover images.
Does anyone remember the hideous UK version of the The Bridemaid's Reward. The one where the heroine has a moustache and we're looking straight up her nose?
And this is Sheikh Zahir al Khalid. Okay, all my heroes look pretty much the same on the cover and I wasn't going to get Antonio Banderas as a cover model. But it is pretty. And it looks like a "sheikh" book. I was a bit concerned I was going to get him in a dinner jacket and her in uniform dancing around Berkeley Square. (You'll have to read the book!)
My real surprise is that, to me, that cover clinch looks more like a Modern/Presents cover than the kind of artwork you usually see on a "Romance". Is this a trend? Or is it simply an attempt to attract "sheikh" lovers from other series to pick it up? I already have a solid following of readers who also love Modern/Presents but if this encourages more to pick a "Romance" and realise what they've been missing, well hooray!
My real surprise is that, to me, that cover clinch looks more like a Modern/Presents cover than the kind of artwork you usually see on a "Romance". Is this a trend? Or is it simply an attempt to attract "sheikh" lovers from other series to pick it up? I already have a solid following of readers who also love Modern/Presents but if this encourages more to pick a "Romance" and realise what they've been missing, well hooray!
Oh, and I'm blogging over at eHarlequin on What Keeps Me Writing. Debbie Macomber is there, too. Right next to me. How cool is that?
