Dance for a Diamond has just been published in large print version by Ulverscroft, and I am delighted with the cover they have used. It sums up my heroine, Antonia Venn, perfectly: lively, petite, soft brown hair and a passion for dance. Dance for a Diamond is set at the time of Waterloo, with a dark, brooding hero and a heroine who desperately wants to be independent. They both have to learn to trust again before they can achieve their happiness. This is one of my favourite books to date, a lovely feel-good novel – and I'm not just going on my memory of writing it, I loved this cover so much I was tempted to read it all over again!
Let me know what you think.
Melinda Hammond
10 comments:
Lovely cover, Melinda - and doesn't the heroine look Keira Knightley in P&P?
It's absolutely gorgeous! Is it a still from the 2005 film of Pride and Prejudice? It looks like it. Maybe when they make a film of Dance for a Diamond (wouldn't it be nice?) Keira Knightley will take the lead :-)
I am already ahead of you on that one, Mandy. I have even started casting the rest of it.....
I love playing casting! I fancy Richard Armitage as Simon, my hero in Stormcrow Castle. I think he'd be perfect for the brooding, sinister owner of the remote castle, and he looks wonderful in Regency dress. Who do you have in mind as the leads in Dance for a Diamond?
Hmm, unfortunately Richard Armitage is already taken for the fantasy casting of my next book, The Belles Dames Club! For Sir Laurence in Dance for a Diamond: well, he needs to be tall and dark but with a wicked twinkle in his hard eyes - any suggestions?
I think publishers should take note-I love the contemporary feel of your cover illustration!
Melinda, I think Toby Stephens would make an excellent Sir Laurence!
It's a FABULOUS cover! Just what the book deserves.
Gorgeous cover. Wish mine were as glamorous! Belle Dames Club sounds interesting...
It is a great cover, but the best thing is the book is too! I loved this book. Anne Herries
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