Last minute changes
The jacket cover underwent a last minute change today - apparently the sky behind the plane was a little too similar to another, somewhat better known author’s recent release. Actually, I think I like the new one better anyway. Here’s a thumbnail of the two of them which is all I can seem to upload at the moment, but you get the idea. Bigger pics coming soon.
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May 23rd, 2006 at 6:01 am
Hi Sam,
Who’s the other author then? Just being nosey! I think they should have recalled all their books and pulped them. Mind you, if you’re happier with the new cover, then I suppose it’s okay.
May 23rd, 2006 at 5:59 pm
Thanks Roger, but I’m sworn to secrecy…
May 28th, 2006 at 3:04 am
Well, I was walking past Waterstones window the other day and I saw the new paperback edition of a recent Booker winner’s novel…
May 31st, 2006 at 1:41 am
That was very observant of you. So now you know why no one suggested changing HIS cover…
June 6th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
Hi Samantha,
I’m another MNW writer, author of Blood and Water published in September. Unfortunately we didn’t meet at the Launch, but it was so hectic and just didn’t last long enough.
I like your new cover better, I think - more subtle - I would pick it over the first one from a book shelf.
I’m writing a second novel now, partially set in the second world war and involving American GIs based in Norfolk. I must buy a copy of yours to read; I find it helps to immerse myself in other writing about the time.
How’s it all going? Have a look at my website - www.lucymccarraher.com - and check the Kindred Spirits page for the new book and my blogsite for how it’s coming along.
All the best
Lucy
June 6th, 2006 at 9:45 pm
Hi Lucy
Nice to hear from you. I’m glad you like the new cover better. It’s interesting that you’re writing a second world war book; like you, I just immersed myself in writing about the time, and read virtually nothing else for about 2 years!
One excellent book for details of what was happening in Britain (useful for things like changing ration details, ages of conscription, restaurant opening hours, what they sold, pub hours, price of beer, all sorts of stuff that just adds texture to your world) is The People’s War by Angus Calder. I got it from the library so I don’t know if it’s still in print but I found it invaluable. Anyway, good luck with the novel.
I’ve just had a quick look at your website (which by the way is really attractive) and we have other things in common too - I’m also an honorary Australian, having lived in Sydney for 7 years. My husband is Aussie, and my 6-year-old son still defines himself as “an Aussie boy” although we’ve been back here 15 months now and he sounds as English as they come!
And like you, I’ve always wanted to be a lady writer in the countryside with a window looking out on somewhere beautiful - I’m still working on that one though and am very envious. But all in good time…
Good luck with it all,
Sam
June 9th, 2006 at 4:20 am
Hi Sam! Love your site!!!!!!!!!! C ya soon! xxxxxxxx
June 28th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
Hi Sam
You may remember me from your days as a receptionist in North Sydney. I was the starving actor in the office next door making dreary phone calls on behalf of the now hugely rich & powerful, Valad Property Group whilst you fielded dreary phone calls as you worked away on your book . I recently read a transcript of Terry Eagleton’s 2005 talk at the London Review of Books Bookshop about his latest book “Holy Terror” and I was immediately reminded of you and our “sanity preserving” discussions. Thanks to Google I discovered this site. Congratulations on your book…I’m so impressed. I look forward to reading it. If you get a chance I’d love to hear from you.
Best Wishes
Michael
June 28th, 2006 at 5:30 pm
Hi Michael,
Of course I remember you (and our “sanity-preserving” discussions) - how lovely to hear from you after all this time. I do hope you are no longer a starving actor and that you have found a more interesting way to earn a crust!! Let me know what you’re doing these days.
I checked out Valad on the internet a while back, out of curiosity - seems like they haven’t done too badly for themselves. Osix no longer seem to exist which is a shame - I’d like to thank them for allowing me to start writing my book on their reception desk. I have vivid memories of Mark (the boss) appearing every now and then with a smile and a few more pages he’d picked up off the printer at the back of the office…
All the best
Sam
November 10th, 2006 at 12:27 am
Hi, Sam. Congratulations and best luck with the launch. Try and enjoy it, as they say.
Sworn to secrecy, eh?
JOHN BANVILLE THE SEA THE SEA JOHN BANVILLE Muahahaha . . .
Funnily enough, Mike Barnard sent me a copy of this the night before it won (along with Macmillan’s winner from the prior year). Funnilier yet, it turned out to be the only Booker Prize winner I’ve ever found readable enough to, erm, finish reading.
You’d think one sunset looks like another, but that was rather uncanny. If it were any book designer less estimable than Richard Evans, I’d suspect he got a little promiscuous with his stock images . . . In any case, you could do worse than be mistaken for Banville, and here’s hoping you go on to prompt other comparisons to him . . .
All best luck,
Michael
http://www.the-manuscript.com/
November 10th, 2006 at 7:04 pm
Hi Michael,
Thanks so much for your best wishes, and well done on securing a film option for The Manuscript. You must be very excited.
I’m not quite sure how the sunset ended up on both books, but I much prefer the cover mine became as a result. I still haven’t managed to get past the first couple of chapters of The Sea - beautiful writing but it just didn’t grab me somehow. Maybe I’ll try again another time.
Thanks again, and good luck with the movie - a new career as an actor beckoning perhaps?
All best
Sam
November 6th, 2007 at 3:11 am
Hello Samu-Chan,
Cor strike a light ! I just happened to be trolling through the ‘net and a thought struck me, is my fellow “booze and usic “patron a published author yet ? and shiver me timbers you are !
I’m so proud of you . As for myself, I’m breeding and hand rearing australian parrots(no I kid you not). Please give a big sloppy kiss to Stevie-baby.
love
peter