Cover Reveal: "Radio Red"

So far only people who signed up for our newsletter, or visited our last book signing, have gotten any more than a tease about my upcoming novel. Well, it's time for the rest of you to take a gander at Radio Red:




Our last two books were non-fiction: Images of America: Albion and Noble County, and Hoosier Hysterical: How the West Became the Midwest Without Moving at All. The latter was in conjunction with Indiana’s bicentennial, so it moved ahead of other projects. Emily and I worked hard on it, and we’re very proud of our baby.

But I started out in fiction, and now I’m going back: Torrid Books accepted my new novel, the romantic comedy Radio Red. Set in northwest Lower Michigan, it’s scheduled to come out March 7, 2017. We’re very excited! This is my first published work of fiction not set in Indiana (or in the Storm Chaser universe, although … it could be, who knows? After all, it’s another state. Never thought about that.)

Anyway, here's a look at the blurb, which is right there on the back cover:






Torrid accepted the book on September 20th, and I went by industry standard, assuming it would come out around a year later. But in very short order I filled out all the necessary paperwork, worked with artist Kelly Martin on the cover art, and got the galleys--the actual formatted manuscript, which I had to check line by line for errors. Much to my surprise, the book is due to come out on March 7th, a full six months earlier than I expected.

This will be our ninth published work! Wow.

11 comments:

  1. Odd... the cover's not showing. I've tried two different servers.

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    1. Okay, that's not good. I'll see if I can figure out what's wrong.

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    2. Okay, it should work now--I fixed it all by myself!

      Don't really know how, but ...

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  2. Fixed (by Mark, not me!) but wanted to point out that blogger ate my previous comment which was about blogger eating crap lately so.. I rest my case.

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    1. I think we can conclude from this that a. It wasn't my fault, and b. I fixed it.

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  3. Congratulations, Mark! That is a big step and it sounds funny. You just can't neglect the humor, can you?

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    1. Not usually! When I was younger my fiction was very, very serious ... and very, very dull.

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  4. Awesome cover art. Can't wait to read it.

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    1. I've had awfully good luck with my book cover art!

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