With the film rights to her debut novel Addition just sold, and a new novel—Fall Girl—due in October, things are looking pretty good for Toni Jordan. And that’s before you mention that Addition has now sold into (count them), 16 territories: the US, Brazil, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Israel, Netherlands, Portugal, Quebec, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, the UK and Italy.
Fancy Goods asked the author which of her many international covers she liked best. ‘That’s like choosing between offspring,’ she says. ‘Right now, I love the Italian one [left], but that might just be because it’s the newest. And I really want that coat.’
For Jordan, the international covers are something of a surprise. ‘Even though I don’t have jacket approval in my Australian contract, the publishers were fantastic in showing me their ideas and discussing them with me,’ she says. ‘My first Australian jacket was the toothbrushes. I loved it from the beginning. Kinda quirky, kinda sexy.’
‘The overseas jackets I have no input into whatsoever. They just appear in the mail.’
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While she’s not one to buy a book for it’s cover, claiming she’s ‘not a very visual person’(and citing as evidence her ‘lack of wardrobe co-ordination’), Jordan does admit that if she had to pick a favourite for a book by another author, it would be this one:
‘Because it’s not static,’ she says. ‘There’s an entire narrative right there, in the picture. You can’t help but wonder: what on earth is going on here?’
Jordan’s new novel Fall Girl is due in November from Text, and looks a little something like this:
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