Sliding Down the Sky - Cover Reveal

It's finally here - the cover for Sliding Down the Sky!  I absolutely love it - especially how it ties in with Absolution (given that Sliding Down the Sky is basically a follow-on of that novel, although still a standalone), and how it ties in with the new story.  It has a foot in both camps - and beautiful shoes :)

Synopsis: 

Callum Ferguson has grown up in the shadow of the sins of his father. The worst moment of his life came not at the age of sixteen, when he threw his father out of the house, but later in life, when he realised he was just like him. With a predilection for alcohol and violence, he sees his destiny every time he looks in the mirror.

Sass Hathaway, hell-raiser and successful musician, thrived in the limelight – until one night she lost it all. Drowning in an ocean of uncertainty, nursing a crippling case of self-loathing, her brother offers her a chance to find herself again.

His idea of salvation is a dilapidated bar. His proposal; she help him and his wife renovate and run it. However, when she and Callum cross paths, they both discover that salvation comes in many forms.

You can’t escape your past, you can only come to terms with it so that you can move on – but accepting your past is only the beginning. Then you must decide whether you’re strong enough to follow your heart.

This can be read as a stand-alone, but reading ‘Absolution’ is recommended in order to get the most out of this story.

Huge thanks to Race-Point - Anita B. Carroll for the amazing design! 

Release date: 11 April
Pre-Orders are available from iBooks, Kobo and B&N, with Amazon going live on release day. You can add it to your Goodreads account now, though!

Here's the ebook cover:

And here's the paperback cover:

Not long to go now, and you'll get to read all about Callum's story, and meet Sass.  Can't wait to share
them with you!

~Amanda

Sale time and Release News!

Absolution is currently on sale this week, for 99c across all platforms, so make sure you grab a copy before Sliding Down the Sky comes out in April! Here are your sales links - Amazon, B&N, Kobo and iBooks.

Sliding Down the Sky is currently being edited - woot!  So excited to share Callum's story with you all!  I should have a cover soon, so I'll post that here when I do.  If you haven't checked it out yet, do have a look at the synopsis over at Goodreads (and add it to your TBR list while you're there).

While it's technically a standalone, I do feel you'll better understand the story if you've already read Absolution.

As to what's next... well, I'm already working on novel five, which has the working title of Life 2.0.  It's another story set right here in New Zealand and I can't wait to flesh it out and share it with you, hopefully at the end of the year.

Once I have a firm release date in April, Sliding Down the Sky will be available for pre-order.  In the meantime, here's another teaser to tide you over :-)

I'm having a lot of fun over in my Facebook readers group, sharing snippets and teasers and behind-the-scenes info on all my books, including the new one. Come over and join us!

~ Amanda

Sliding Down The Sky

So, here I am, almost at the end of writing my first draft for novel four (89% of the way through as I type this), and what do I do? I stop. I not only stop, but I have this insane desire to edit what I already have.

All the "rules of writing" say don't do this. They say never edit as you go as it screws with your creativity. I say screw that. Rules are made to be broken! I've figured out that stopping at this point to review what I have is perfectly normal for me. It helps me to cement what I have in my head before I write the Grand Finale. So, I'm flipping the bird to the Rules and I'm editing.

It's weird how your (my) brain works. I've been through several title ideas while I've been writing this novel. I thought, about four weeks ago, that A Sea of Stars was what this story was begging to be called. But the more into the story I got, and the more things changed, the more I realised that the title also needed to change.

So, now, the title is set. It's a line from one of my favourite Counting Crows songs, "Einstein on the Beach".  

"Sliding Down The Sky" will be with you all in April 2016. In case you missed it, it's Callum's story, from "Absolution". I love Callum - he's so complex! He's all angsty and plagued with self-doubt and self-loathing, but he has this huge capacity to love, and he's extremely loyal. He needed to have his own book, a way of working out some of his issues. It's been a joy to revisit him, and the rest of the "Absolution" gang.

And yes, I know I've neglected this blog for awhile, so in case you missed it, "The Trouble with Paper Planes" was released in July. It's a little different to my previous books, but it's found an audience nonetheless - hurray! If you haven't read it yet, the three most common words used to describe it (from reviewers) are "unconventional", "unexpected" and "unusual". Dive in and let me know what you think!

If you want to add "Sliding Down the Sky" to your Goodreads TBR, or follow progress on my website, or join us over on Facebook in my readers group, I'd love that! I'm sharing teasers and suchlike there. Speaking of which...

~Amanda