Tara Moss's Blog, page 10
September 12, 2011
Sneak peek: Final cover art for The Spider Goddess. Plus a new book deal.
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Okay, this excites me.
The second Pandora English novel, The Spider Goddess is the sequel to The Blood Countess, and hits stores Dec 1st this year. It's off at the printers now, and I've just been shown the final cover designs by Xou Creative, featuring gorgeous filigree spider webbing and Pandora's downcast face above the Manhattan skyline.
What do you think?
I'm also excited to announce that PanMacmillan Publishers have this week signed me on for two more Pandora novels, with the third in the series, The Skeleton Key, to be published in 2012.
Here's the back cover blurb for The Spider Goddess:
It's been two months since Pandora English left her small hometown to live with her mysterious great-aunt in a haunted mansion in Spektor – the fog-wreathed suburb of Manhattan that doesn't appear on any map. With the help of her great-aunt and the beautiful – but dead – Lieutenant Luke, Pandora is beginning to understand the significance of the Lucasta family heritage her late mother kept secret from her. Pandora is heir to a great gift. And with that comes frightening responsibility...
Meanwhile, she seems doomed to be forever underestimated in the mortal world. Her fashion editor boss doesn't seem to know she exists. But New York needs Pandora's special gifts. There is a new designer in town, and her ambitions extend far beyond taking over the fashion world one knit at a time...
Happy reading.
PS For now it's back to the world of crime for me, researching and writing Assassin...
Okay, this excites me.
The second Pandora English novel, The Spider Goddess is the sequel to The Blood Countess, and hits stores Dec 1st this year. It's off at the printers now, and I've just been shown the final cover designs by Xou Creative, featuring gorgeous filigree spider webbing and Pandora's downcast face above the Manhattan skyline.
What do you think?
I'm also excited to announce that PanMacmillan Publishers have this week signed me on for two more Pandora novels, with the third in the series, The Skeleton Key, to be published in 2012.
Here's the back cover blurb for The Spider Goddess:
It's been two months since Pandora English left her small hometown to live with her mysterious great-aunt in a haunted mansion in Spektor – the fog-wreathed suburb of Manhattan that doesn't appear on any map. With the help of her great-aunt and the beautiful – but dead – Lieutenant Luke, Pandora is beginning to understand the significance of the Lucasta family heritage her late mother kept secret from her. Pandora is heir to a great gift. And with that comes frightening responsibility...
Meanwhile, she seems doomed to be forever underestimated in the mortal world. Her fashion editor boss doesn't seem to know she exists. But New York needs Pandora's special gifts. There is a new designer in town, and her ambitions extend far beyond taking over the fashion world one knit at a time...
Happy reading.
PS For now it's back to the world of crime for me, researching and writing Assassin...
August 24, 2011
Foreward to a Fatal Interview
I am ensconced in my writer's cave, surrounded by books and notes and pillows and dogs, writing my sixth Mak Vanderwall crime novel, Assassin, and thinking of death, sex, murder, betrayal, greed. Such topics are the bread and butter of the thriller novelist. So it is appropriate that I picked up my new edition of Red Dragon, by Thomas Harris, whom I consider to be one of this genre's very finest authors. I am to review this favourite novel of mine for the September instalment of my monthly book club, Tara Moss Recommends for crime channel 13th Street.
Thomas Harris himself writes a brilliant foreword to Red Dragon, entitled, Foreward to a Fatal Interview. In it, he describes the process of writing Red Dragon, and discovering Hannibal Lecter, M.D., the famous fictional villain his story let loose on the world. Among many wonderful insights, Harris has this to say about the writing process:
'You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.'
With fresh inspiration, I continue my search...
Thomas Harris himself writes a brilliant foreword to Red Dragon, entitled, Foreward to a Fatal Interview. In it, he describes the process of writing Red Dragon, and discovering Hannibal Lecter, M.D., the famous fictional villain his story let loose on the world. Among many wonderful insights, Harris has this to say about the writing process:
'You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.'
With fresh inspiration, I continue my search...
