UK Cover for COLD WELCOME

[e_moon60]

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[ext_933375]

I may have to buy both versions. I really like the UK cover.

I like the typographical interest they added to your name, too.

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[e_moon60]

So did I, Scott. It's an interesting pair to see together, for sure--one psychological and one "scenic." I think both wrap around w/more images behind whatever they put on the back. And I wish I had the artist names--today's not a day to ask that question but when I get it I'll edit this post and add their names.

Cold Welcome

[anonymous]

I like the UK version. And your crayon drawing is also interesting.

Jonathan up in NH

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[e_moon60]

Thank you for the tactful "interesting" as a response to my sketch! I also like the UK version today in particular.

[thewayne]

I REALLY need to re-read the previous in the series! The problem will be in finding them in our "library"....

[e_moon60]

Actually this book isn't that connected to the earlier ones. All the characters that repeat are a few years older, and I think/hope that their intros are brief enough not to be infodump and informative enough to prevent confusion. Most of the characters but the main ones are new. Though if you find the books and WANT to wade through them again, it certainly wouldn't hurt my feelings.

[thewayne]

In addition to refreshing my background to the characters, a re-read would also refresh my memory of your universe, and that's important to me. And I do enjoy re-reading series. I recently re-watched a TV show that I'd seen only a year ago and I was amazed at not only the details that I'd forgotten but at the new connections that I made. While I broadly remembered the show, I'd forgotten a lot of the nuanced bits

[e_moon60]

This one isn't out yet--it comes out in April. You can pre-order it, of course, online, but it's still making its way through the process and hasn't shipped.

[cdozo]

I love them both! It will be fun to read more Ky stories, I like hanging out with her.

[e_moon60]

Thanks!

[pameladean]

The actual covers are really gorgeous. But I really like your sketch as well, seeing over the characters' shoulders at what they're looking at, and the gesture as they interact. It's very intriguing.

P.

[e_moon60]

The concept for me of that seascape/landscape came from a flight along the Australian coast...miles and miles of red rock cliffs, deep blue ocean below with lines of waves...from 30,000 feet, the waves looked big. A fellow passenger told me they really were big (esp. to a landlubber like me!) I just made it a *frozen* coast and then changed the topography inland, the way one does when writing. It was fun to do. I hadn't touched those crayons in several years.

[tuftears]

Am I wrong for thinking the crayon drawing has one of the characters thumping the other on the head for getting them into this situation? :)

[e_moon60]

Uh--that's not what's SUPPOSED to be happening. The left most is pointing over the head of the other to where the rocks are getting lower; the one sort of leaning over is doing something for the one lying down (those are feet sticking up in the lower right corner, soles facing you.) I forget what scenes I mashed together for this and exactly what was happening.

The next book is in a completely different place, though on the same planet.