World exclusive!!
Posted on 23 January 2009 by Freya North
I keep my promises, me…
(fanfare, please…)
I am proud to present, for your delectation and delight, a sneak preview of the Secrets jacket design. I hope you like it. It will be available in the airports from February 5th, and in paperback, in the UK, from May 5th. My backlist will all be sporting snazzy new covers too, later in the year. And you know where you’ll find them first…right here!
Please let me know what you think - I’ll be on tenterhooks for your response and will feed it back to my publishers directly.
Freya x
Tags | Secrets
January 23rd, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Love the design, not just the fact that it’s pink, but the lettering is great and the simplicity works really well I think. No wonder you’re pleased with it! I will look out for it on the bookshelves!
Alison x
January 23rd, 2009 at 11:13 pm
great! one happy customer… Hope you’ll enjoy the book itself too, of course! F
January 24th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Love the cover! Really girlie, am SOOO excited that you can buy it in airports in Feb- means I can get it for my holiday in March. I spend all year checking the website for news on new releases.. thanks for writing such great books!
Tamsin x x
January 25th, 2009 at 10:01 am
Love the cover, the colours and the title all great. Will get my mate to keep a look out for it at Heathrow. Be quicker than waiting for it to come out over here. Keep em coming….
Regards
Jen.
January 27th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Love the new cover, it’s pink and fabulous! Can’t wait to get my hands on a copy!! x
February 1st, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Ooooh….. love it - a very bright and distinctive cover. It has definitely whetted my apetite for what’s inside!!!
February 7th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Fantastic Freya, cover and artwork looks amazing! Really distinctive and should be an eye catcher on the shelves!
Thankfully my dad works in an airport so he is on the case now! I just wont be able to wait until May!!
Love your books, keep up the super work!
Lizz, Simon and Freya (3)
xx
February 9th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Yes! Me Likes the look of the cover and moreso the title is mysterious and alllurring! I have just finished reading PIP and I can now say I have finally read all your books. I did it a bit back to front, read Love Rules first, then Home Truths, then Pillow Talk and loved them so much decided to go back to the very beginning and get the rest! I must say, I noticed that with each book, starting with Sally, I could sense your writing style getting better and more confident as you wrote each one, if you see what I mean! I do really like the honesty and down to earth-ness of your books and look forward to Secrets.
TTFN
Glenda
February 9th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
The cover looks absolutely brilliant - but v.sad today as my husband has gone on a business trip today and was instructed to make sure he gets a copy from the airport! But they were SOLD OUT! Must be great - looking forward to reading it SOON!
February 9th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Hey Cassie
I’m thrilled that you love the cover - but horrified that there were no copies for your hubby to snap up on his business trip. Please let me know which airport - and I’ll report back to my publishers immediately….
FN
February 11th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Thanks Freya,
I now have my hands on a copy - my darling husband returned with it after all from his trip away. They were sold out at Luton but he managed to get me the ‘last copy’ on the shelf at Aberdeen.
Good news though about it being sold out.
Not has chance to start yet (he returned at 12am this morning!) - but its here just in time for my half term hols!
Looking forward to getting lost in it.
Thanks
February 12th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
can’t wait for your response, Cassie! Keep me posted. And warmest thanks to your wonder-hubby! F
February 16th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
AMAZING!
Just spent a glorious day reading SECRETS cover to cover!
One of your nest Freya and I’m so glad i have managed to get hold of a copy!
I love Joe, Tess and Em….and Wolf of course! Even if i put the book down for a minute i was left thinking about what i was missing out on!
I dont suppose you have another book coming out next week do you? ;o)
thank you thank you thank you!
Lizz
xx
February 23rd, 2009 at 9:54 am
Freya - I love and own everyone of your books - almost all in that annoying large size format that they first come out in as I can never stand to wait until they come out in ‘normal’ paperback! I can’t wait to get my hands on the next one…but….can I be brutally honest? I don’t like the new cover for ‘Secrets’. It looks terribly frothy and lightweight, and I know that’s exactly not what the words inside will be. I can’t help but think that if I didn’t know just how great your books were, I’d be overlooking this one if I saw it on the shelf and dismissing it. Yes, I’m guilty of judging a book by its cover!
Nonetheless, I can’t wait to read it…!
February 23rd, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Hi JKM,
I’m really interested in your response. Covers are SO subjective (I know…I worked as a picture researcher doing other people’s book covers when I was an unpublished writer!) I’m so sorry that, as a dedicated reader, the new design doesn’t tickle your fancy. Fascinating that you feel it looks frothy and lightweight - we went for strong colour and simple silhouette and straight typography to try and avoid that (I’ve seen a few covers of ‘the competition’ - many appear to adhere to larky illustrations on creamy backgrounds with squiggly writing). See what you think when it’s in your hands. And yes, I assure you that the interior of the book is 475 pages of quality fiction - humane, sexy, a little dark, sometimes funny, sometimes poignant…) Thanks for your considered posting - it’s always so interesting and flattering that my readers should feel strongly. Much much better than a ’so-so’ response!
Keep in touch! FN
March 2nd, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Hi Freya,
Am currently reading ‘Love Rules’ after a pause in reading your books. I love how realistic your characters are and how I can imagine them being part of my own circle of friends. The greatest pleasure for me is catching up with characters from previous books like Sally and Richard. I think it gives a sense of completeness and, why wouldn’t they know Alice and Thea? It reminds me of the inter-connected nature of university friends and the individuals themselves.
Thank you for such fun, but touching novels. Picking up ‘Love Rules’ has been like chatting to an old friend while sitting in my favourite chair with tea and cake.
Just sent instructions to the fiance to grab ‘Secrets’ while passing through Heathrow this afternoon….I really like the cover - the silhouette is in keeping with the idea of being close to discovering a secret. Very intriguing!
Best wishes,
Tiff
June 29th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Hi
I havn’t been so engrossed in my books since before my exams started, but now they’re finished I grasp any opportunity to read them. The book comes with me wherever I go, happily sitting in my handbag waiting for me to turn to the folded page and carry on in my adventure of a fairytale life.
At the moment I’m reading secrets- I love it! I love how you keep some things quiet until nearer the end of the story; it lends excitement and mystery to it! You also seem to have everything in the right place. I was thinking, ‘why hasn’t Tess had a ‘nosy’ around Joe’s bedroom yet?’ And sure enough, the next paragraph involved Tess snuggling into his pillow!
The book I read before this one was Pillow Talk, which my boyfriend bought me as a little gift. He knew how much i loved the book because I kept talking about it and telling him all about the history of Tanzanite. So he came back from his tesco shop with another book written by you. I was over the moon and started reading straight away. (Much to his regret of buying it as I disappeared again for another hour or so!)
Thankyou for providing me (and I’m sure many, many others alike) with stories that I can relate to, characters whom i feel I know personally and places which I can vividly picture in my mind!
Sorry about the essay I’ve written! Keep up the good work
Camila xxx
June 30th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Camilla! Good luck with your exam results. I thought for a moment that when you said your boyf went to Tesco after you’d read Pillow Talk…you were going to say he brought you back Tanzanite. I mean, I know they sell most things…but!