One book, so many decisions, who knew?
11pt or 12pt?
Garamond or Palatino?
Who gets a review copy?
And how to brief a cover designer when the picture you have in
your head comprises a medley of all the images in the entire book?
But it's getting there. The Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam have kindly given permission to quote up to 50 words from Vincent’s letters for free – so one
small panic over!
The cover now has a back and a spine and
would have been perfect if I hadn't changed the type size at the last moment
causing the book to be slightly wider. All delays my own fault!
The Advance Information Sheet is almost
ready to send out and the list of people to send it to is growing
exponentially. Will any of them be interested?
They should be! Chasing Sunflowers is not only a good read but topical too and will
be released to coincide (almost!) with 125 years of Van Gogh inspiration. He
died on 29th July 1890 in Auvers-sur-Oise, France.
But Chasing
Sunflowers is more about heroine Kate breaking out of her chrysalis than about
Vincent van Gogh himself. Although she is inspired by his paintings the real
catalyst is her attractive and mysterious art-history teacher who paints her in
his studio in the trendy Jordaan area of Amsterdam. What happens next? You’ll
have to read the book to find out!
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