It’s Real. It’s here.

Putting out a new title is a slow process. You have to write it first, then edit, then rewrite, then edit, then rewrite, then send it off for formal editing, then rewrite, send it off to the publisher, ait for it to come back, then rewrite again. It’s a paintstaking process which can take anything from a few months to a couple of years.

Once all that is done the publishers spend time on the layout and formatting, and you’re left either twiddling your thumbs or working on the next masterpiece.

Then one day, you receive a proof of the cover image, and suddenly all that work shifts to another dimension. The work you have slaved over, teased and tickled into publishable status becomes a reality.

I reached that point yesterday when the cover of The I-Spy Murders arrived in my inbox.

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It was not an easy tale to picture and we had a hell of a time deciding how best to set up the cover, but based on the story, we decided on this as the definitive image.

Now it’s real. Now the book has a life of its own. And that life begins on June 28th. Be there so you can say to your grandchildren, ‘I saw it happen.’

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The I-Spy Murders, a Sanford 3rd Age Club Mystery is published by Crooked Cat Books, released on 28th June, 2012 on the Kindle and all other e-readers.