One thing you learn, hopefully, when designing your own covers is that each cover makes a promise, gives a clue, or shows what the reader can expect inside. There is no doubt what these books have in store for the reader. The colors on Redemption also gives a feeling of riding off into the sunset. Can it be that we will hear the last of Hunk and Tom?- Print Length: 231 pages
- Publisher: Andrew Joyce; 1 edition (January 2, 2014)
- Publication Date: January 2, 2014
Andrew has a story about the publishing of Redemption which I will let him tell you in his own words.Meanwhile, Joyce's new book, Molly Lee, has the same western feel to it. The cover is still giving a book browser clues to what is in store for them when they read the book. Why is that important? An author wants to attract an audience who will enjoy their book and share it with others. If you write a book for a science fiction fan, while you would like others to pick it up, you want to be sure the book reaches its target audience, the readers of your genre. With the wrong cover it is quite possible that a reader of Romance would pick up the book and while the sale of a book is never bad, your target audience might slide right by your book, causing you to miss hundreds of sales.
My
name is Andrew Joyce and I write books for a living. Sunday has been kind
enough to allow me a little space on her blog, so I thought I might entertain you
with a story about the publishing business.
My
first book was a 125,000-word historical novel. And in the publishing world,
anything over 80,000 words for a first-time author is heresy. Or so I was told
time and time again when I approached an agent for representation. After two
years of research and writing and a year of trying to secure the services of an
agent, I got angry. To be told that my efforts were meaningless was somewhat
demoralizing to say the least. I mean . . . those rejections were coming from
people who had never even read my book.
“So
you want an 80,000-word novel?” I said to no one in particular, unless you
count my dog, because he was the only one around at the time. Consequently, I
decided to show them City Slickers that I could write an 80,000-word
novel!
I
had just finished reading Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn for the third time, and
I started thinking about what ever happened to those boys, Tom and Huck. They
must have grown up, but then what? So I sat down at my computer and banged out REDEMPTION:
The Further Adventures of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer in two months. I had
them as adults in the Old West. Here’s an Amazon link: http://geni.us/redemption Then I sent out query letters to literary agents.
Less
than a month later, the chairman of one of the biggest agencies in New York
City emailed me telling me that he loved the story and suggested a few changes.
They were good suggestions, and I incorporated about 80% of them into the book.
We signed a contract and it was off to the races, or so I thought. But then the
real fun began: the serious editing. Seven months later, I gave birth to Huck
and Tom as adults. And just for the record, the final word count is 79,914.
My new book is
entitled MOLLY LEE and it’s averaging 4.9 stars on Amazon. It is also
available in paperback. Please check it out. Here’s a link . . . http://geni.us/molly
Thank you,
Andrew Joyce
http://andrewjoyce76.com
Find Andrew Joyce and his books at the following sites:
Amazon ... http://geni.us/molly
Barnes and Noble ... http://geni.us/P2X
iTunes ... http://geni.us/TH1
Kobo ... http://geni.us/2EHU
Smashwords ... http://geni.us/1ZNZ
Andrew's Web Site ... http://andrewjoyce76.com
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