Today I have the honor of being part of Joyce Alton's cover reveal for her new book. It's coming out in September 2014.
Joyce was the overseer and manager of the BEST critiquing marathon/boot camp I've ever been in. A summer filled with a dozen or so writers critiquing a dozen or more manuscripts. It was brutal, and it was amazing. I learned so much from that workshop and I owe her. She's absolutely amazing.
So, without further ado, the cover!!!!!!!!!!!!!
An ancient legend is remade.
Meet the oddest, most-likely-to-fail partnership the planet Niyhel has ever known. He's cunning, intelligent, and dangerous. She's slow to trust, reckless, and loyal. And both of them have their own ideas about how to do things.
Thssk, a six-thousand-year old norhendra, has unwittingly caused the near extinction of his kind. Then he abandoned his handler, momentarily forgetting that she was an astral. She curses him as he flees the battlefield: the next handler he chooses will avenge her. Hunted by his past, it takes a divine summons and a volcanic eruption to rekindle Thssk's competitive spirit after a long hibernation. Racing against his enemies to rescue a boy from another planet?—he's the only one capable of pulling it off. But there's a catch, he has to select a new human partner to work with.
Tech savvy Cortnee Feyandihar is tracking down the people responsible for her mom's death while trying to gain a footing on a career path in the fields of music and dance. But when she goes too far with a corruption exposé, a last-ditch effort to salvage her future sticks her in the middle of an inter-world showdown and right into Thssk's coils.
On a world where starships are born, homes grow, and flowers can flatten entire cities, the fates of two lands hangs in the balance, as do the lives of millions of people. Yet it all pales in comparison to Thssk confronting the repercussions of discarding his previous partners as he struggles with his unpredictable new one. Everything Cortnee thought she understood has turned inside out and she must utilize every skill in her arsenal to get a grip on her new reality. If they can't learn to communicate and work together, he won't achieve the great future he was promised, but if they do, Cortnee could fall like her predecessors—into madness.
Joyce Alton writes fantasy, science-fantasy, and historical fantasy. She is an avid reader, having a soft spot for classic literature, a good MG or YA adventure, anything that will make her laugh out loud, or which is beautifully written. She loves rainy days, helping other people, and spending time with her family. She is married to a wonderfully supportive husband and has three children. She currently lives in Idaho.
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Make sure you congratulate her on Twitter, Facebook, her blog, everything, for this cover!!! She'd love to hear from you! Congrats again Joyce (Clippership!) and thank you for everything you've done for us AQC writers.
Cool elements in the cover.
ReplyDeleteThank you, SC! I think Marathon has changed many people, including myself.
ReplyDeleteI don't get to read very often because of school and work, but I has the opportunity to read this book. I was amzed how good it was, and especially clean for young teens. Some of the situations presented through some loops that never have been written before.
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