New Year, New Cover -- a Guest Post by Sue Purkiss
Our guest author for January is Sue Purkiss, whose claim to fame is that she's met Arya Stark! Below, she discusses something that gives a lot of indie authors headaches -- covers! Emily's Surprising Voyage In October, I was invited to a book fair in Corsham, with Sharon Tregenza, Jasbinder Bilal, Chris Vick and others. It was good fun - and it gave me some food for thought. I had a number of books on display. I'm not a particularly prolific author, and I'm a bit of a butterfly - my books are all quite different. I've always seen this as a disadvantage, but on this occasion, it turned out to be be a good thing, because there was something for (almost) everyone: Spook School and two similar funny fantasy stories for younger children; Emily's Surprising Voyage , which is a story set on Brunel's ship the SS Great Britain in the 19th century, beautifully illustrated by James De La Rue; Jack Fortune , which is a middle grade historical nove...