I’m so excited. I’ve just completed the book cover for The Goddess of Light. It’s so interesting wearing many hats when you take control of your own artistic life. I have been allowed to oversee the art direction of my own book so coming up with a design that is both marketable and true to the story has been difficult to say the least. Moving from idea to completion is just like writing the book itself. You conceptualize. You begin the preliminary work. You edit. You edit again. You edit even more. You edit to the point of regurgitation and when you finally say screw I’m done. Something wonderful happens. You let the work lead you and it takes you in a direction that you could have never imagined and then you bring forth something beautiful.
I believe artwork is an integral part of my books. I’ve had the immense pleasure of working with two great artists. Narcisa Jovic and Justin LaRocca Hansen, have both been singularly professional and gifted. And of course I can’t forget Pepper Kaminski my own personal art director who has “jazzed up” both my covers. The Goddess of Light is the exciting continuation of Solstice. It contains intrigue, infamy, violence, sex, drugs, magic and hot jazz. What more could you ask for from a novel about a Harlem witch that scandalizes pre-war Europe.
Look for it soon on sale everywhere in late August.
