As an author, one of the most exciting moments for me in the production
cycle of a book is my first sight of the cover.
I spend a lot of time with my characters (in my imagination of course!)
from first imaginings to totally falling in love with them as the story
develops. My romances generally have the hero or heroine alone—or more often both as
a couple—on the cover.
To see how my publisher’s cover designer interprets my descriptions of
the characters and setting is always exciting. I’ve been fortunate to have
been given some beautiful covers for my books.
My next release for Harlequin is Stranded with Her Greek Tycoon in February 2018.
It’s
a passionate, emotional story with an estranged husband and wife stranded on a
private Greek island in a snowstorm. Gorgeous Cristos Theofanis has one night
to win back Hayley, the wife he'd adored.
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| UK cover |
The fun thing working with a Harlequin Romance title is that my books
are simultaneously released not only in North America (Harlequin Romance) but
also in the UK (Mills & Boon True Love).
That usually means two quite different covers. Then there is the cover
for the Australian and New Zealand editions, also released at the same time or
very close to it. These often follow the US cover but not always, so that can
mean three covers out at the same time.
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| North America cover |
More cover fun comes in the months after that with foreign language
editions where the cover is usually completely different.
Above, I've shared both the North American and UK covers for Stranded with Her Greek Tycoon with you.
What do you think? Do you have a preference? (To ask me to choose, islike
asking a mother to name a favourite child. I adore the cover hero on the UK
edition, he is just like I imagined the hero Cristos—handsome and hot! But I
also love seeing the hero and heroine together on the NA cover, and she looks very like the Hayley of my imagination.)
Kandy Shepherd’s most recent book Conveniently Wed to the Greek is a May 2017 release. Watch out for Stranded with Her Greek Tycoon in February 2018.
Kandy Shepherd is a multi-published,
award-winning author of contemporary romance and women’s fiction. She lives on
a small farm in the Blue
Mountains near Sydney, Australia, with her family and a menagerie of four-legged
friends.
Visit Kandy at her website
