{"id":13067,"date":"2020-12-09T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=13067"},"modified":"2020-12-08T18:49:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T23:49:55","slug":"the-final-boss-book-title-change-cover-reveal-and-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=13067","title":{"rendered":"THE FINAL BOSS BOOK! Title change, cover reveal, and release date!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READERS! IT&#8217;S HAPPENING! IT&#8217;S REALLY HAPPENING!<\/p>\n<p>While I had planned to announce\u00a0<em>The Daughter<\/em>&#8216;s release date and reveal the cover last week, it just felt&#8230;wrong. And I didn&#8217;t know why. This is going to be the very last time I&#8217;m with Sophie. While I&#8217;ve been writing other books, as well, Sophie has been my main focus, my work wife, since I started writing the serialized version of\u00a0<em>The Boss<\/em> in&#8230;was it 2013? I can&#8217;t remember. Either way, for the better part of a decade.<\/p>\n<p>It was difficult to decide on a cover. I kept staring at it, going, &#8220;the title just doesn&#8217;t look right. None of this looks right. Is that even how &#8216;daughter&#8217; is spelled? It looks so&#8230;wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I realized that out of all the titles in the series, none of them, not a single one, had referred to Sophie. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Boss<\/em> referred to Neil.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Girlfriend<\/em> referred to Valerie.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Bride<\/em> was Emma.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Ex<\/em> was Stephen.<\/li>\n<li>Obviously, Olivia is\u00a0<em>The Baby<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Sister<\/em> referred to Molly<\/li>\n<li><em>The Boyfriend\u00a0<\/em>was El-Mudad<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sophie has never had top billing. When you read\u00a0<em>The Daughter<\/em>, it&#8217;ll be clear who it refers to. But that person isn&#8217;t Sophie.<\/p>\n<p>So, without further ado, the title and the cover for the final book in\u00a0<em>The Boss<\/em> series will be (already ruined for you by the social media preview):<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/sophie-cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13068\" src=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/sophie-cover-640x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photo of a brunette with long hair, shown from just under the eyes, down to her cleavage. She's wiping the corner of her mouth with her fingertips in a suggestive manner. SOPHIE is printed across the bottom in huge letters.\" width=\"640\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/sophie-cover-640x1024.jpg 640w, https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/sophie-cover-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/sophie-cover-768x1229.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/sophie-cover.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can hear the shrieks of a thousand completists. Why, why, why have I broken the theme? WHY?! And also, the covers used to be only black and white and now you&#8217;ve got this lipstick-red going on? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY KINDLE?!<\/p>\n<p>You may also notice that my pen name ain&#8217;t anywhere on that cover. All of the changes, the title, the red, no author name? It&#8217;s all because Sophie is the star. I&#8217;m giving her the spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>If you weren&#8217;t here in the dark times of the\u00a0<em>Fifty Shades of Grey<\/em> recaps, you might not be aware that though at the height of the madness I was receiving a hundred thousand or more hits per day, but I wasn&#8217;t making any money. I didn&#8217;t believe I deserved to get paid for my writing, that I was lucky enough to have people want to read it. After all, I&#8217;d lost my New York publishing contracts, my family was on food stamps, I was making about $200 a month editing for a small publisher and getting royalty checks for new novellas that never broke two figures. When I started writing this series, my goal was to write the anti-<em>Fifty Shades<\/em> and maybe someone would want to download it if I distributed it as an ebook. I had high hopes that the sequel,\u00a0<em>The Girlfriend<\/em>, might actually sell a few copies.<\/p>\n<p>It sold 20,000 copies its first week.<\/p>\n<p>Today,\u00a0<em>The Boss <\/em>and its sequels\u00a0have sold over a million copies in the United States. It&#8217;s been a bestseller internationally, having hit shelves in Brazil, Portugal, Italy, France, and I&#8217;m sure other places I can&#8217;t think of without opening the folder on my computer labeled &#8220;foreign rights contracts.&#8221; This series changed my life, gave me a whole new career, and I couldn&#8217;t have done it without Sophie. I have no idea where she came from. I don&#8217;t know anyone like her. She just appeared in my head fully formed and I got the joy of watching her navigate everything I threw at her. This is her finale, so I&#8217;m giving her the send-off she deserves.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned before that I wouldn&#8217;t be releasing this book until after the inauguration in January. So, the official release date for\u00a0<em>Sophie<\/em> is January 21st, 2021, or 1\/21\/2021 which has to be good luck somehow, right? It will hit Radish the same day as a new &#8220;season&#8221; of\u00a0<em>The Boss<\/em> there. I&#8217;ll have pre-order information as soon as it&#8217;s available; in the meantime, keep on rockin&#8217; in the free world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>READERS! IT&#8217;S HAPPENING! IT&#8217;S REALLY HAPPENING! While I had planned to announce\u00a0The Daughter&#8216;s release date and reveal the cover last week, it just felt&#8230;wrong. And<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=13067\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">THE FINAL BOSS BOOK! 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