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Release date: January 1, 2013 | August 19, 2014 (paperback)
Catherine is tired of struggling musicians befriending her just so they can get a
gig at her Dad's famous Manhattan club, The Underground. Then she meets
mysterious Hence, an unbelievably passionate and talented musician on the brink
of success. As their relationship grows, both are swept away in a fiery
romance. But when their love is tested by a cruel whim of fate, will pride keep
them apart?
Chelsea has always believed that her mom died of a sudden illness, until she finds a letter her dad has kept from her for years -- a letter from her mom, Catherine, who didn't die: She disappeared. Driven by unanswered questions, Chelsea sets out to look for her -- starting with the return address on the letter: The Underground.
Told in two voices, twenty years apart, Catherine delivers a fresh retelling of the Emily Brontë classic Wuthering Heights, interweaving a timeless forbidden romance with a captivating modern mystery.
Chelsea has always believed that her mom died of a sudden illness, until she finds a letter her dad has kept from her for years -- a letter from her mom, Catherine, who didn't die: She disappeared. Driven by unanswered questions, Chelsea sets out to look for her -- starting with the return address on the letter: The Underground.
Told in two voices, twenty years apart, Catherine delivers a fresh retelling of the Emily Brontë classic Wuthering Heights, interweaving a timeless forbidden romance with a captivating modern mystery.
I love both of these covers! But I want to know which one is your favorite!
Author Stalker
April Lindner is the author of three novels: Catherine,
a modernization of Wuthering Heights; Jane, an update of Jane
Eyre; and Love, Lucy, due out in January, 2015. She also has
published two poetry collections, Skin and This Bed Our Bodies Shaped.
She plays acoustic guitar badly, sees more rock concerts than she’d care to
admit, travels whenever she can, cooks Italian food, and lavishes attention on
her pets—two Labrador retriever mixes and two excitable guinea pigs. A
professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University, April lives in Pennsylvania
with her husband and two sons.
Guest Post
Promises, Promises:
Judging a Book by Its Cover
We’ve all been told that you can’t judge a book by its
cover. And yet some of us book lovers can’t help ourselves; there’s nothing
like a gorgeous cover to lure us in. More often than not, an enticing cover is
the main thing that moves me to pick up a book I’ve never heard of, to start
paging through it, giving the first few paragraphs a chance to seal the deal—or
not.
So for me the most exciting moment in the whole bookmaking
occurs when a book’s future cover appears in my inbox. I click on the
thumbnail, and wait breathlessly as the image blooms onto my computer screen.
Only then can I imagine my manuscript as a book—on a shelf, or, better still,
in the hands of a reader. I know the cover will set the book’s tone. And it
will make promises—hopefully the right ones.
All of this explains why I’m so thrilled by the new cover of
Catherine’s paperback edition, due
out in August. Don’t get me wrong: I love the original Catherine cover. Lush and dramatic, it makes certain promises—ones
I believe the book keeps. The elegant model in her kickass stance promises a strong
female protagonist. (Actually, the book has two alternating strong female
narrators—Catherine and her daughter Chelsea.) And the background, with the
iconic Flatiron Building rising up through the mist, promises the book’s Lower
Manhattan setting will be as important as its characters. The title
typeface—bold and purple—promises a confident, free-spirited heroine—exactly
how I see Catherine herself.
But the new paperback cover—already available to readers who
download the Ebook-- makes a different set of promises. On it, a boy and a girl
hold each other in the shadows of a graffiti-covered underpass. They gaze at
each other in rapt wonder, their shoulders, neck and heads echoing the shape of
a heart. Secret romance, this cover
says. It promises love against the odds. The scene is gritty—less glamorous
than the cityscape on the original—but this grittiness befits the book’s main
setting, a post punk night club on the Bowery. The title’s typeface is still
bold, but its peachy color underscores the sweet and optimistic innocence of
this couple’s embrace.
Inspired by the classic romance Wuthering Heights, Catherine
is a story of star-crossed love interwoven with mystery. Its soundtrack is the
post-punk music played by Catherine’s boyfriend, Hence. And the new paperback
cover captures that complex mood exactly, I think. In fact, when it popped up
on my computer screen for the first time, I almost swooned. There it was, in
front of me: almost exactly the picture I saw in my imagination as I wrote the
book.
An author can hope for nothing more than that.
~April Lindner
Have a lovely rest of your day!
I like the paperback cover the best.
ReplyDeleteI like them both :D
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