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Final version, or at least final enough that I'm allowed to post it.
A few notes. First of all, this is the kind of cover that will look much better in print than on the screen, because as I found out the hard way, the details depend heavily on your monitor settings. If you can't see the building in the background, you aren't really getting it all. (Yes, there's a building in the background. I promise. I didn't see it until I tried a different computer.)
Second, there are two details that can't be conveyed in an image. The title will be printed in silver foil, and the floral pattern winding through will be done in a spot gloss on an otherwise matte cover. Or at least that's the current plan.
I'm quite pleased with it. Authorial nitpickiness aside (there's always authorial nitpickiness), it's a nice, elegant cover, and I like their choice of a pull-quote for the top; that's a line from a John Dowland song I found just as I was doing revisions back in August. I'll leave it as a closing note:
"Time stands still with gazing on her face,
stand still and gaze for minutes, houres and yeares, to her giue place:
All other things shall change, but shee remains the same,
till heauens changed haue their course & time hath lost his name."
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Date: 2007-09-19 04:03 pm (UTC)*turns green*
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Date: 2007-09-19 04:43 pm (UTC)when is it due out again?
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...pation).
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Date: 2007-09-19 04:43 pm (UTC)I'm really excited to see it on the shelves—face out, of course.
(You can see it all on a Mac monitor.)
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Date: 2007-09-19 04:45 pm (UTC)Now, I'm curious... On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate this cover as far as meeting your expectations?
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Date: 2007-09-19 05:07 pm (UTC)Also, wouldn't it be fair to say that doing spiffy cover stuff like silver foil means that the powers that be love and have much faith in the book?
Blue is a great cover color too. I don't see very much of it out there, but when I do, I really like it.
Yay book! (now if only I can be the first to find it in a store...)
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Date: 2007-09-19 07:43 pm (UTC)With such little things do authors pet their egos. <g>
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Date: 2007-09-19 08:47 pm (UTC)And (at least on my monitor) those invisible details pop when i tilt my monitor or look at it from a different angle.
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Date: 2007-09-20 12:25 am (UTC)And Dowland = coolness, a nice choice for a cover quote. :)
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Date: 2007-09-20 04:06 am (UTC)Now how am I supposed to read the book if that keeps happening?
we are all very excited...
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Date: 2007-09-20 10:13 am (UTC)I am so excited for you, for this book, and to read the story I've been hearing about for SO long!! :)
Absoultely Fabulous.
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Date: 2007-09-20 12:00 pm (UTC)Go you!
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Date: 2007-09-20 02:12 pm (UTC)Which is how I remembered I have the brightness on my monitor dialed way down.
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Date: 2007-09-21 12:04 am (UTC)I'll be sure to keep people posted, too, about the reissues of my earlier books.
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