With regards to my novel, Oracle.

[Susan Boulton]

I must say, Gary, you have done my book proud with the superb cover, not to mention the wonderful editing, and endless support.

 

[Gary Compton]

Thanks, Susan.

It deserves mine and Teresa's efforts, it really does.

I suppose I will have to reveal the cover now...

...or maybe tomorrow.

 

[alchemist]

Tease.


Both of you!

 

[chopper]

huzzah! way to go sue (and gary of course!)

 

[Gary Compton]

Well here it is. The cover for Sue's Oracle which is being published in January 2015.

The legendary Ian Whates is providing the front cover blurb so my comment is there temporarily. I have some uses but Ian's stunt double is not one I expected.

 

[thaddeus6th]

Nice cover. Steam engines are fantastically evocative machines.

 

[The Judge]

Very evocative, especially with the sepia tint. Don't forget the back cover blurb, though!

Good luck with it, Sue! (And Gary!)

 

[Gary Compton]

Kim Lakin-Smith is doing the back blurb but we wont get hers or Ian's till Teresa/Sue has done the final polish and they read it.

 

[farntfar]

A terrific cover page.

 

[Ursa major]

Excellent cover.


(I can see at least two three faces "peeking out" of that cloud of smoke. I expect I'll notice more if I keep staring at it....)

 

[Abernovo]

Cool cover. Good luck, both of you.

 

[Juliana]

Pretty! I love it.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Very, very lovely.

 

[Susan Boulton]

It is lovely isn't it. It captures the feel and period setting of the book very well. I am so pleased with it. Gary has worked hard on this. It is getting very real now and I am beginning to feel both excited and frightened to death!

 

[Jo Zebedee]

You'll be grand. You're in good company!

 

[Brian G Turner]

Tagline?

 

[The Judge]

Kim Lakin-Smith is doing the back blurb

The blurb? ie the stuff that tells you what the book is about eg "Gary is having a bad day. His breakfast sausages burned, his toast ignited, he's run out of Nescafe and he's got his tax return to complete. And now aliens have landed in his back garden." I thought you'd be itching to do that!

It captures the feel and period setting of the book very well.

As a matter of interest, Sue, what is the period and setting? Not England, I take it, as the train is foreign?

 

[Susan Boulton]

Judge, Oracle is a gaslight fantasy set in a secondary world. The time period is equal to early victorian. So think steam trains, telegraph, horse drawn carriages, guns, cotton mills, all the mix of early industrial revolution and country under going a massive change

 

[thaddeus6th]

Secondary world? Not heard that term before.

 

[Ursa major]

I'm guessing, but the locomotive may be Danish.

In fact, it may be Q 350, a Danish State Railways 0-8-0 tank locomotive.