Books That Move

Can we just take a minute to talk about my new header?

I love it, I love it, I love it. Lynn – my super-brilliant website guru – and I were meeting in person to talk about overhauling this site in preparation for the new book (Wednesday Riders – I have cover drafts!) and we were talking about my new tagline – “Books that move” (more on that later), and I idly said, “We’ll need a new header – something with lots of movement,” and while I was saying that I was entering “running horses” in a stock image site, and look what came up! It was literally the first image I saw, and I knew it was perfect.

And, then Lynn took it and did six degrees of awesomeness to it …

Now, onto “Books that move.”

This motto / tagline / thought came to me a while ago, and I instantly loved it because it fits what I’m trying to do in three big ways. Here they are:

1) My books are about movement. Horseback riding. Running. Skiing. Cycling. Sailing. My characters move. They love to move – need to move. So, I write books that move.

2) It’s really important to me that my books move along. As in, have good pacing and forward momentum. I want my readers to want to turn the next page. So, I strive to write books that move.

3) Finally, I hope my books are moving. I hope my readers have moments of emotion when they read them. Maybe sometimes happy, maybe sometimes sad -  I hope my books stay with my readers after they’re done. I aim to write books that move my readers.

I thought it would take longer to explain this, but the fact that it doesn’t is maybe an even better indication that this fits for me.

So, I hope you like the new header, and I hope you’re up for reading my next book that moves.