Claire Wade
  • Home
  • The Choice
  • About
    • Awards
    • Articles & Interviews
    • Writing FAQ
  • Disability
    • ME/CFS
    • Disabled Authors - ADCI
    • The Bookseller
  • Blog
  • Book Club
    • Book Club Questions
  • Contact
    • Newsletter

The Evolution of a Cover - The Choice

1/10/2019

0 Comments

 
The Evolution of a Cover - The Choice by Claire Wade winner of the Good Housekeeping Novel Competition
I'm so excited to be able to finally talk about the cover for The Choice. I've been waiting to show you for a few months and it's been so hard to keep it to myself, but now I can finally let you see the stunning cover Orion has designed for me.
Picture
I have to admit that the cover is nothing like I expected. I thought there would be some cakes or maybe some sugar somewhere in the design, but that would fit more with one of the earlier drafts of The Choice/The Box/The Shame Box/Class A Cake/Working Title. The book has gone through an evolution process much deeper than just the name.

Since working with my fabulous editor Victoria, the story has developed in ways I never anticipated. It's moved further away from my original baking novel idea to become something more powerful.

The cover shows that not just to the readers but also to me. I had worked so intensely on it that I didn't realise the full extent of the story I had written. I was completely oblivious until I saw my cover and it took my breath away.

It also intimidated me because it wasn't what I was expecting.

The colours and design set it amongst some of the biggest names in feminist fiction, a place I had never intended to go, but it's where I ended up and I couldn't deny it any more. The Choice has a lot of different elements to it, including baking, female friendship, the love between a mother and her children, it's also feminist dystopia.

​That took some adjusting to, but now I have, I love the cover. It's so striking and I feel very lucky that it will be wrapped around my story.

Read the Blurb...

Imagine a world where…
Everything you ate was monitored by the government.
Every step you took was counted.
Your children were weighed every day at school.
Neighbours reported on neighbours and no one was safe from judgement.
Sugar was illegal, and baking was a crime.
 
Imagine if that world was here… What would you do?
Toe the line or fight for your freedom…

Want more? Read an extract from my competition entry.

You can read my competition entry and the extract that appeared in Good Housekeeping here.. The story has changed a lot during the editing process, but the first page has stayed almost exactly the same.

Are you hooked?

You can pre-order your copy of The Choice as a paperback, ebook or audiobook from all good booksellers.  Amazon UK, Waterstones and Book Depository ​
Claire Wade is the winner of the Good Housekeeping Novel Competition and author of The Choice. She was bed bound for six years with severe ME, trapped in a body that wouldn't do what she wanted. She now writes about people who want to break free from the constraints of their lives, a subject she's deeply familiar with.
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Claire Wade

    Claire Wade

    I'm an author, disability activist, winner of the Good Housekeeping First Novel Competition and The EABA for Fiction 2020 and founder of Authors with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses (ADCI).


    The Choice is available from:

    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    DETAILS:
    ​Title:
    The Choice
    Publisher: Orion
    ISBN: 1409187748

    You can keep up to date with all my latest blog posts by signing up to my email newsletter.

    RSS Feed


    Follow on Bloglovin

    Claire Wade



The Only News Newsletter

Fill in your details to receive my very occasional newsletter.

Marketing Permissions

The information you provide on this form will only be used to provide you with updates and personalized marketing. Your privacy is important to us! Please let us know how you would like to keep in touch:

We will send you occasional emails about promotions, new products and important updates to keep you in the loop.
We will use your information to show you ads that are more relevant to you to improve your online experience.

By clicking below to submit this form, you acknowledge that the information you provide will be processed in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

Thank you!

You have successfully joined my VIP Reader list.

.
    Terms & Conditions         Privacy Policy        Site map            

© Claire Wade
Studio  17659, PO Box 6945, London, W1A 6US
  • Home
  • The Choice
  • About
    • Awards
    • Articles & Interviews
    • Writing FAQ
  • Disability
    • ME/CFS
    • Disabled Authors - ADCI
    • The Bookseller
  • Blog
  • Book Club
    • Book Club Questions
  • Contact
    • Newsletter