Mike in Finland

Monday 7 February 2011

The Finn´s Tale cover


Cover of The Finns Tale

Here´s the cover of my new novel, The Finn´s Tale, due from Ward Wood Publishing at the end of March. I´m delighted with the effect Mike Fortune-Wood has got with the photo of the woman´s hand which portrays a key scene in the plot.

The final edit of the novel is well underway and I´m really pleased with the way it´s going: no major revisions, just some tweaks here and there to make sure the text flows smoothly. I had to get permission from Minnesota Public Radio to use two short passages from an article on their website, as well, and I can say that they were jolly quick in their response and extremely helpful. Much gratitude.

So, not long now. I´ll post some more details as the big day draws closer.

6 comments:

  1. It's beautiful! I can't wait to get my copy. Good luck with it -- promoting a novel is very different from promoting poetry (as you know). It becomes a full-time job. The problem is you never expect poetry to sell, but you do expect fiction to, and I know yours will! When I get back from my A Clash of Innocents Asian tour, let's discuss if I can host you on my blog.

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  2. Sue, thanks for your comments. Glad you like the picture. Best of luck with your Asian tour; I´m sure it will go swimmingly. You certainly get around! Some of my promotion for The Finn´s Tale I plan to do in Finland (I applied logic there) so it´s on my doorstep.

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  3. I know what you mean as there is a chance a novel can really take off.

    On the other hand, all books have to sell 400+ to start going into profit (it all goes into the first and second print run before that) so poets do have to work just as hard at promoting them.

    I think the actual promotion done by authors for poetry and fiction is very similar and requires very regular live events - probably more important for poetry in fact as it tends to sell only/mainly at events. Novels sell in other ways too.

    The hard thing with promoting novels is that there are fewer ready-made venues and events where you can perform. Poetry has quite a few venues. Sue is doing incredibly well at 'inventing' ways to take part in events.

    Promoting any book well enough is a full-time job, I think, but authors also need paid work so the balance between paid work, promoting, and writing the next book is incredibly tough.

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  4. I guess I´m going to find out all about that pretty soon.

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  5. Our Kindle designs are working after months of planning so we'll soon have your novel out in both traditional print and ebook form!

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  6. That´s great news, Adele. I´m looking forward to seeing how it works.

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