I am super excited to be able to help
spread the word about the new cover for the paperback edition of CATHERINE by April Lindner which will be
available this August.
Both covers are
amazing but convey something very different with the image and colors. And I’m
thrilled to be able to welcome April Lindner to the blog with a post discussing
them both.
There is also a
giveaway for an Amazon eGift Card. Just scroll to the bottom of this post for
details and to enter.
While CATHERINE’s paperback release
is still a few months away, if you purchase the eBook edition now, it comes
with the new cover. And if you’re a fan of the first cover, the hardback copy
is still available to purchase.
Both covers
rock, but which one is your favorite?
About CATHERINE
Title: CATHERINE
Author: April
Lindner
Publisher:
Poppy
Release date:
January 1, 2013 | August 19, 2014 (paperback)
Formats:
Hardcover, paperback, eBook
Catherine is tired of struggling musicians befriending her just
so they can get a gig at her Dad's famous Manhattan club, The Underground. Then
she meets mysterious Hence, an unbelievably passionate and talented musician on
the brink of success. As their relationship grows, both are swept away in a
fiery romance. But when their love is tested by a cruel whim of fate, will
pride keep them apart?
Chelsea has always believed that her mom died of a sudden
illness, until she finds a letter her dad has kept from her for years -- a
letter from her mom, Catherine, who didn't die: She disappeared. Driven by
unanswered questions, Chelsea sets out to look for her -- starting with the
return address on the letter: The Underground.
Told in two
voices, twenty years apart, Catherine delivers a fresh retelling of the Emily
Brontë classic Wuthering Heights, interweaving a timeless forbidden romance
with a captivating modern mystery.
The Guest Post
Promises, Promises: Judging
a Book by Its Cover
By April Lindner
We’ve all been told that you can’t
judge a book by its cover. And yet some of us book lovers can’t help ourselves;
there’s nothing like a gorgeous cover to lure us in. More often than not, an
enticing cover is the main thing that moves me to pick up a book I've never
heard of, to start paging through it, giving the first few paragraphs a chance
to seal the deal—or not.
So for me the
most exciting moment in the whole bookmaking occurs when a book’s future cover
appears in my inbox. I click on the thumbnail, and wait breathlessly as the
image blooms onto my computer screen. Only then can I imagine my manuscript as
a book—on a shelf, or, better still, in the hands of a reader. I know the cover
will set the book’s tone. And it will make promises—hopefully the right ones.
All of this
explains why I’m so thrilled by the new cover of Catherine’s paperback edition,
due out in August. Don’t get me wrong: I love the original Catherine cover. Lush and dramatic, it makes
certain promises—ones I believe the book keeps. The elegant model in her
kickass stance promises a strong female protagonist. (Actually, the book has
two alternating strong female narrators—Catherine and her daughter Chelsea.)
And the background, with the iconic Flatiron Building rising up through the
mist, promises the book’s Lower Manhattan setting will be as important as its
characters. The title typeface—bold and purple—promises a confident,
free-spirited heroine—exactly how I see Catherine herself.
But the new
paperback cover—already available to readers who download the Ebook-- makes a
different set of promises. On it, a boy and a girl hold each other in the
shadows of a graffiti-covered underpass. They gaze at each other in rapt
wonder, their shoulders, neck and heads echoing the shape of a heart. Secret romance, this cover
says. It promises love against the odds. The scene is gritty—less glamorous
than the cityscape on the original—but this grittiness befits the book’s main
setting, a post punk night club on the Bowery. The title’s typeface is still
bold, but its peachy color underscores the sweet and optimistic innocence of
this couple’s embrace.
Inspired by the
classic romance Wuthering
Heights, Catherine is a story of star-crossed love
interwoven with mystery. Its soundtrack is the post-punk music played by
Catherine’s boyfriend, Hence. And the new paperback cover captures that complex
mood exactly, I think. In fact, when it popped up on my computer screen for the
first time, I almost swooned. There it was, in front of me: almost exactly the
picture I saw in my imagination as I wrote the book.
An author can
hope for nothing more than that.
April Lindner is the author of three
novels: Catherine, a modernization of Wuthering Heights; Jane, an update of
Jane Eyre; and Love, Lucy, due out in January, 2015. She also has published two
poetry collections, Skin and This Bed Our Bodies Shaped. She plays acoustic
guitar badly, sees more rock concerts than she’d care to admit, travels
whenever she can, cooks Italian food, and lavishes attention on her pets—two
Labrador retriever mixes and two excitable guinea pigs. A professor of English
at Saint Joseph’s University, April lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and
two sons.
The Cover
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