Two wonderful bits of good news:
In the video, I talk about my aim in writing the book and what the book’s about. I hope you enjoy it!
The paperback can be purchased at Amazon.com – click here. It will also soon be available on Amazon UK.
I’ve had lots of comments about the cover of The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown, and all of them complimentary (thank you!), so I thought I’d share the story behind the cover.
The majority of books out there on Anne Boleyn have a portrait of Anne as a cover and as my book is not a full biography of her life I didn’t think a portrait was appropriate. I wanted the cover to symbolise the subject matter of my book, i.e. Anne Boleyn’s fall and execution, and I wanted it to be different and eye-catching. I chose the B necklace because it is linked to Anne Boleyn, she is wearing it in most of the portraits we have of her, and it was obviously something she wore on that “little neck” of hers. I also wanted the image to symbolise the brutality of Anne’s end – the horror and the violence – so I picked an execution sword. I had photos of 16th century German execution swords and I figured that the French executioner’s sword would have been similar.
I gave a graphic artist friend a B necklace and my photos of the execution sword and explained what I wanted. He then played around with the concept and sent me different ideas until I was happy (I’m not too hard to please). Tim, my amazing, multi-talented husband (must suck up to him!), then took the image, added a background and made the cover. I had used John Stow’s “Annals of England to 1603″, which was published in 1603, in my research and the script used was beautiful. Tim had the idea of using the account of Anne’s execution from Stow’s book as the background for the sword and necklace image, and I agreed. I was really pleased with the finished cover image.
You can click on the image here to see a larger image and do let me know your thoughts. Do you like it?
The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown is available now from Amazon. See Buy the Book for further details.
Cover design: David Leppenwell, Tim Ridgway and Claire Ridgway
I’m so excited! The Kindle version of The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown is now available to download on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.es, Amazon.de and Amazon.fr – yay!
Here are the Amazon US and UK links:-
The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown – The Kindle version from Amazon.com
The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown – The Kindle version from Amazon.co.uk
I’m more than happy to ‘virtually’ sign and add a message to your Kindle copy. You can request this through http://www.kindlegraph.com/authors/AnneBoleynFiles
The paperback version is not yet available but it will be out shortly and I’ll let you know as soon as it is.
Once you’ve read The Fall of Anne Boleyn it would be wonderful if you could spare a moment and leave a review on Amazon or Goodreads. Reviews are so important to new authors and it only has to be brief – every little helps! I read every single review and really appreciate the effort.
You can also help by clicking “like” on the book’s Amazon page. Thank you so much!
Thank you for all the support you gave me with my first book, The Anne Boleyn Collection, and I hope you like The Fall of Anne Boleyn as much.
Here’s a sneak peak of the cover for The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown.
As you can see, it features an execution sword and Anne Boleyn’s B necklace as its main image, and the background text is John Stow’s account of Anne Boleyn’s execution from his book Annals of England to 1603.
I wanted to keep the same style as The Anne Boleyn Collection and also the tagline “The real truth about the Tudors” as that is always uppermost in my mind when I’m researching and writing.
The Anne Boleyn Files