Hi Everyone,
I'm down to the final elements that make up the cover of The Last Daughter of Prussia. Here's how the process of publishing my novel is unfolding for me. We're so close. I'm waiting in excited anticipation for the final countdown.
Until next time...
Marina Gottlieb Sarles
The front cover of my SOON-TO-BE-PUBLISHED novel. I am so excited! I wanted to tell you that the ARC's are coming out next week. I didn't actually know what this acronym stood for but now I do! Advanced Reader Copy So, the process goes like this... As a marketing tool, publishers (in this case my wonderful publisher WILD RIVER BOOKS) provide free copies of new titles to reviewers, booksellers, journalists and even celebrities. This happens before the book is printed for mass distribution. When a celebrity reader or journalist gives an endorsement, that's added to the dust-cover and other promotional items. Reader books are normally distributed three to six months before the book is officially released to reviewers, bookstores, magazines and in some cases libraries. As you can see on the spine, The Last Daughter will be officially released in April 2013. However, for all my Bahamian friends and followers we are planning an advance publication launch and booksigning right here in Freeport, Grand Bahama BEFORE Christmas. Time, Date and Venue to be announced. So please stay tuned. For my friends who aren't here in the Bahamas, maybe you'll come down for the launch and some R&R in the sea and sun. |
Here are endorsements that I have already
obtained
and that have been used for the back cover.
I thank Patricia Clough, awesome author whose fabulous book and account
of
The
Great Trek–the evacuation of East Prussia–stayed
on my desk
throughout my entire
writing journey of The Last Daughter of Prussia.
I wrote to her hardly
expecting an endorsement because she is so
busy and well-known,
yet she was kind enough to read my novel and write a beautiful comment.
Denise
Rutzou is the president of the Australian Trakehner Society.
She is such
a doll for writing this touching endorsement.
I feel like we struck up a
friendship via e-mail and I've told her
I want to visit her in Australia one
day to meet her
and her beloved Trakehners.
And then there is Ian Hancock. What a learned man!
He has brought huge awareness to the
Romanies
and their little understood culture.
He has represented
the Romani people at the United Nations and
served as a member of the U.S. HolocaustMemorial Council
under President Bill Clinton.
I never in my wildest
dreams imagined he would write an endorsement,
but again he took the time
and I am ever so grateful.
Perhaps many established authors remember
what it
was like when they first started writing.
I have other amazing
endorsements too.
Erhard Schulte, the Trakehner expert in Germany
who
never tired of answer my questions.
Dr. Christoph Hinkelmann, East Prussian Museum, Lüneburg, Germany
who took the time
out of his busy schedule
to read the novel, give super advice and
comment.
Anne Hampson, Bestselling Romance Novelist
who
is also my dear
friend and mentor.
The publisher has said that their beautiful comments
will
definitely be used in the marketing of my book.
THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!
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And here you have the blurb
that gives you a taste of what the book is about and hopefully whets your appetite to read more. |
Marina Gottlieb Sarles
Wooohooo!!! So excited for you, and what fabulous endorsements -- high fives and hugs!!
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