Author is delighted with book design
The cover has been unveiled for the third book by Lanarkshire’s Andy Livingstone – and the author has revealed that he is once again delighted with the publishers’ design.
Hero Risen is the third book in the Seeds of Destiny epic fantasy series and will be published at the start of June.
Andy, who is a former reporter and sub-editor with the Advertiser and is now a PR officer with South Lanarkshire Council, said: “This is an exciting time, as the cover reveal is a major part of the run-up to production.
“They say that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but people do, so the first impression it gives is so important to potential readers.
“I have been so lucky to have the expertise of the designers at Harper Voyager working on this – not least because, if I tell you I was bottom in painting and drawing three years in a row when I was at school, you’ll get an idea of my ability in art.
“Once again, they have come up with a brilliant cover that continues the look of the previous two books but stands out in its own right. ”
The first two books in the trilogy, Hero Born and Hero Grown, were published in 2015 and 2016 respectively after Andy had been one of just 15 authors – and the only Scot – to be signed by the UK office of publishing giant Harpervoyager’s following a world-wide search by the publisher for new authors.
The call for submissions, for a two-week period in 2012, had seen more than 5000 full-length manuscripts sent to the publishers’offices in London, New York and Sydney – the first time that a‘big five’publisher had conducted such an exercise for new talent on a global scale.
This third book continues the story of Brann, a village boy who is dragged from his simple life into a world where his only consideration is to survive, not realising that circumstances – and the plotting of others – are moulding his raw abilities to make him the hero a civilisation will need.
With a band of companions gathered along the way, he faces adventures, perils and daunting obstacles as – over the course of the three books described by readers as‘historical fiction in a world much like ours’ and‘thriller-fantasy’– he gradually unravels the plot that is threatening an empire.
But can he, or anyone, thwart it?