Travis Justice themes
I just got an email from Kensington's publicity department and they're planning quite a bit of promotion for my upcoming title, Travis Justice.
Blog tours, net galley advanced review copies, even some advertising. If any bookseller or blogger wants an advance copy please email me and let me know and I'll be sure you're added to the net galley list. I'd also like to ask what everyone who reads this thinks of filmed book trailers? I've done some web research and they seem to be growing in popularity, so I'm toying with the idea of doing one. I have a friend in LA who's done a bunch of shorts and won tons of festivals including a scholarship at the AFI. But it will take all my promotion budget in one fell swoop. However, this book is also very visually striking and would translate very well to the big screen. If I didn't have so many other obligations, including a new series to Kensington, I'd be writing it as a script now.
Since I started writing professionally a long time ago before the internet, I'm still a bit green when it comes to promotion, but I want to put out a bit more effort for this book because I think it's possibly the best one I've ever written. I don't say that lightly, and here's why: My style is much sparer than it used to be, and this story I think captures so many different emotions. The debt we owe to our ancestors; love between mother and son and grandfather and granddaughter; the pains of distrust overcome between two very similar people from two very different worlds as Zach and Hana fight their common enemy and find love most unexpectedly along the way. Even the high and mighty operational chief of the Texas Rangers, Zach's conservative law man Dad, will soften to Hana by the end of the book when he sees her willing to die for her own principles. How could a true Texas Ranger not admire her for that?
And perhaps most interesting of all, the sword, that wonderful Masamune symbol of truth and justice, is virtually a character in itself. If you like the legend of Excaliber, you should like my Nakatomi katana.....
Not easy to write such a complex story in a contemporary suspense format, would have been much easier in one of my 400 plus page historicals lol.
As always I'd love to hear personally what ya'll think.....
I'll post more when I have more details.
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Blog tours, net galley advanced review copies, even some advertising. If any bookseller or blogger wants an advance copy please email me and let me know and I'll be sure you're added to the net galley list. I'd also like to ask what everyone who reads this thinks of filmed book trailers? I've done some web research and they seem to be growing in popularity, so I'm toying with the idea of doing one. I have a friend in LA who's done a bunch of shorts and won tons of festivals including a scholarship at the AFI. But it will take all my promotion budget in one fell swoop. However, this book is also very visually striking and would translate very well to the big screen. If I didn't have so many other obligations, including a new series to Kensington, I'd be writing it as a script now.
Since I started writing professionally a long time ago before the internet, I'm still a bit green when it comes to promotion, but I want to put out a bit more effort for this book because I think it's possibly the best one I've ever written. I don't say that lightly, and here's why: My style is much sparer than it used to be, and this story I think captures so many different emotions. The debt we owe to our ancestors; love between mother and son and grandfather and granddaughter; the pains of distrust overcome between two very similar people from two very different worlds as Zach and Hana fight their common enemy and find love most unexpectedly along the way. Even the high and mighty operational chief of the Texas Rangers, Zach's conservative law man Dad, will soften to Hana by the end of the book when he sees her willing to die for her own principles. How could a true Texas Ranger not admire her for that?
And perhaps most interesting of all, the sword, that wonderful Masamune symbol of truth and justice, is virtually a character in itself. If you like the legend of Excaliber, you should like my Nakatomi katana.....
Not easy to write such a complex story in a contemporary suspense format, would have been much easier in one of my 400 plus page historicals lol.
As always I'd love to hear personally what ya'll think.....
I'll post more when I have more details.
reply
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