A New Day Has Come
And no, I don't mean the Celine Dion song... even if secretly I was just listening to "It's All Coming Back To Me". Shhhh.
No, by new day I mean... new day, a new edition, a new book, a new me! My book, Inanimate Objects, was one of those slow-cook books, the kind that takes about 4 years to finish. The characters had been bouncing around my head for years before I even started writing and after about 4 drafts with major changes (new protagonists, bad guys becoming good guys, good guys becoming bad guys and one little jerk getting removed entirely), I finally finished the book.
Family and friends had heard enough about it by then to want to read the dang thing. I had the choice of sitting around waiting to find a cover model that looked like what I wanted (aka my protagonist), or releasing the book with a somewhat pedestrian (wait- actually pedestrian: the cover featured two people walking on a sidewalk) cover... I went with the latter, just because people wanted to read Inanimate Objects and, as a writer, I wanted them to, too.
So fast-forward through some major game-changing life events and I decided to go to Arisia (a sci fi/fantasy/writing convention) and ran into a few absolutely awesome people, landed a job and got an idea for a short story or two. I became friends with a really incredible group of people, the steampunk group The Vagabonds. And it wasn't for a month or two that I realized that my friend could be Leo, with only one or two small tweaks.
And so finally after my loooooong search for a handsome, fine-boned, slightly androgynous guy with black hair (hard to come by in rural NH), I realized I had a Leo right in front of me. Days later, this new day was ready to dawn. (Yes, days. It took days for this new day to dawn).
Anyway, Inanimate Objects finally has a Leo.
For booking/more info about the cover model, please visit www.vagabondsteam.net or check out some of the Vagabonds videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/LockeValor All subscriptions, comments and likes help them to keep doing what they're doing.
No, by new day I mean... new day, a new edition, a new book, a new me! My book, Inanimate Objects, was one of those slow-cook books, the kind that takes about 4 years to finish. The characters had been bouncing around my head for years before I even started writing and after about 4 drafts with major changes (new protagonists, bad guys becoming good guys, good guys becoming bad guys and one little jerk getting removed entirely), I finally finished the book.
Family and friends had heard enough about it by then to want to read the dang thing. I had the choice of sitting around waiting to find a cover model that looked like what I wanted (aka my protagonist), or releasing the book with a somewhat pedestrian (wait- actually pedestrian: the cover featured two people walking on a sidewalk) cover... I went with the latter, just because people wanted to read Inanimate Objects and, as a writer, I wanted them to, too.
So fast-forward through some major game-changing life events and I decided to go to Arisia (a sci fi/fantasy/writing convention) and ran into a few absolutely awesome people, landed a job and got an idea for a short story or two. I became friends with a really incredible group of people, the steampunk group The Vagabonds. And it wasn't for a month or two that I realized that my friend could be Leo, with only one or two small tweaks.
And so finally after my loooooong search for a handsome, fine-boned, slightly androgynous guy with black hair (hard to come by in rural NH), I realized I had a Leo right in front of me. Days later, this new day was ready to dawn. (Yes, days. It took days for this new day to dawn).
Anyway, Inanimate Objects finally has a Leo.
For booking/more info about the cover model, please visit www.vagabondsteam.net or check out some of the Vagabonds videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/LockeValor All subscriptions, comments and likes help them to keep doing what they're doing.
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