If you’re a novelist but unable to give up the ‘day job’ (yet), then you’ll know all about the inevitable delays that surround any event, but particularly that new novel launch, when you’re relying on friends to make those final proof or artwork adjustments & get back to you.

Their time is valuable too, and you’ve just added another ‘ask’ to their already hectic lives. So you have to be prepared for your own time-frame of how you see things progressing, to go completely out of the window.

Of course, choosing to publish your next novel amidst the busiest season for an online fine chocolate retailer, is guaranteed, as sure as eggs is eggs, to present timing problems of a whole new level.

All you can do is relax… get everything ready your side, so when those updated images or files arrive, you can move without delay.

There’s nothing more valuable than a friend, who understands what you’re trying to achieve with your novel’s cover artwork, and having the tools and the patience to produce exactly what you had envisaged.

So it is with my latest action & adventure novel – Price: Dark Crater.

Like those brave Astronauts that orbited the Moon and remarked that it was so close, they could almost reach out and touch it. It’s coming my friends… It’s coming.

Price: Dark Crater – the 3rd Dr Adam Price Adventure novel by me, Jonathan C. Crouch, will be touching down very soon now.