Earlier this year, I announced that I will be releasing an Ugly Duckling retelling called A Noble Companion as part of the Cornerstone Series from Beyond the Bookery. I can finally reveal its gorgeous cover!
A Noble Companion releases on November 12, and you can already pre-order the Kindle version on Amazon.
As you can see from the tagline here, this book involves a dragon! The books in this series are all non-magical fantasy, which means the authors get to include fantasy elements such as creatures (like dragons, centaurs, unicorns, mermaids) or settings, but there will be no magic-users, such as witches or wizards or sorcerers.
Is this a major step out into the unknown for me personally? In some ways, yes. I tried writing a fantasy novel in my teens and gave it up because the worldbuilding was driving me crazy. I've never tried to write anything fantasy-ish again... until now.
But, being me, my book also has an American West flavor -- I've created a world based on Spanish California in the early 1800s (think of Zorro), but with talking animals and dragons.
Anyway! I love my cover, and I'm having a great time writing this book. If you'd like to see covers for more of the series, we are releasing four at a time every Monday for the whole month of June -- you can find the first eight here in my Instagram feed!
Oh, and if you think A Noble Companion sounds like a fun read, you can mark it as "want to read" here on Goodreads.
It is such a striking cover, and the colors are exquisite! I love it so much!
ReplyDeletePersonally, I think I got one of the top 3 best for the whole series :-D
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