Lisa says “Hello Sugar Daddy!”
Dear Friends,
It’s finally here!
Sugar Daddy has gone through the process of being extracted from my imagination, through my fingers into the keyboard, onto the paper and subsequently the editor’s desk, then back and forth for revisions and copyediting, then dressed in a beautiful cover, multiplied at least a hundred thousand times, shipped to stores, unpacked and placed on the shelves, where it tries to beckon alluringly to all passersby, some of whom will actually buy it and take it home.
And it takes all that for a story to go from my heart to your hands. You’d think I’d have gotten used to this by now, having been an author for more than twenty years.
But yesterday, when I saw the book on a front stand at Borders, I felt exactly like I did when my first book was published. (Except older, with hair color and better jewelry, accompanied by two short people who seem to be calling me “Mommy.")
There is absolutely positively no way for the cover to look as good on the computer monitor as it does in person. The colors are so saturated and rich and glowing, you’d swear the cover has batteries tucked inside somewhere. (Don’t say anything, Xtina!)
I hope readers will enjoy this Cinderella story about Liberty Jones, a young woman from a trailer park who dreams about finding love and family. Liberty’s life takes her to places she never expected to go. Which life often does. And it has a happy ending, which I believe, even in this cynical world, is possible for all of us.
Here’s something fun : Sugar Daddy is being released right now in the UK, and they’ve put their own cover on it.
I think it is so charming! This rendition of Liberty reminds me of Audrey Hepburn in the movie “Sabrina.” And I like the way the suitcases represent Liberty’s journey.
Sabrina was another Cinderella story. I loved the original with Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart, and I even loved the remake with Harrison Ford and Julia Ormond.
What other Cinderella stories--movies or books--have you enjoyed in the past?