it's here!
My author copies for WHEN THE LIGHTS GO DOWN finally arrived today. Yippee! I heard the UPS truck pull up & raced to the door, hoping I was right about what he was delivering. And I was!
I realize I'd already seen the cover art, even got a stack of cover flats to oooh & aaah over. But--oh, my goodness--it's so exciting to get the final product. The cover is--if possible--even more beautiful than it was on the cover flats. I'm suddenly seeing the artist's brushstrokes & the floor-to-ceiling windows in the background that I hadn't noticed before.
I realize I'd already seen the cover art, even got a stack of cover flats to oooh & aaah over. But--oh, my goodness--it's so exciting to get the final product. The cover is--if possible--even more beautiful than it was on the cover flats. I'm suddenly seeing the artist's brushstrokes & the floor-to-ceiling windows in the background that I hadn't noticed before.
Not to mention how neat it is to reacquaint myself with the story & characters as I skim thru looking for typos or last-minute editing changes. At that point, I always hope I don't find anything that sends me screaming into the night. Because, really, what can be done about mistakes at this point? Nada. Luckily, Silhouette tends to do a really good job with that sort of thing, so I don't worry too much. And I always have my ex-librarian mother read over the last set of page proofs for me. She's like the grammar & punctuation police...if she doesn't catch a mistake or typo, then it simply isn't there. :-p
Oh, & I also discovered last night that my February 2006 Desire, SEVEN-YEAR SEDUCTION is listed on Amazon already. No cover art yet, but just seeing the title up there is a thrill. And BLAME IT ON THE BLACKOUT is apparently going to be released in Spanish (thru Harlequin Deseo) also in February. It's new title is Echale La Culpa A La Oscuridad--Blame it on the Darkness. How cute is that? :-)
