This book o’ mine had a long, strange, and winding journey to publication but it’s HERE.
Long time readers of this blog first encountered it as a story about a little girl going to the Bahamas called Sand and Bones. Then I re-wrote it to be Clara’s story, and it became Escaping Andronicus. And then I let my Beta readers (thank you Dover and Thena!) at it (again) and it was finally titled The Cultist’s Wife.
Then it sat in my To Be Edited folder while I worked on The Vitruvian Mask because I had people asking me for a sequel to The Archimedean Heart and I am nothing if not responsive to my readers. <grin>
But finally, I returned to this book and polished it up to a shine. I had my developmental editor give it another pass. A sensitivity reader took a look at it from a Black Bahamian perspective. I hired a proofreader (thanks, Alison!) and got a great cover designer (Kelley York at Sleepy Fox Studios). I think it’s the story I wanted to tell now.
I have had some lovely people look at the ARCs and wanted to share snippets of their reviews:
The book took my breath away…
It had everything that I was looking for…
I was so enthralled in this story I couldn’t stop thinking about it when I couldn’t be reading it.
This was a quick read and it sucked me in right away!
Read this in 2 days. Very readable!
Awww, you folks are so sweet! <BLUSH> I was so pleased to read these reviews!
BJ Sikes, author 