Apparently this is Amazon's day to post Surprise Cover Art.

[swan_tower]

Hey, look! I seem to have finalized cover art!

Y'all know what that means: it's time for another "please make me an icon, because I suck at image manipulation" contest. Something featuring a crop or resizing or whatever of that cover, plus the title, like ceosanna did for A Star Shall Fall. Winner will get an ARC of the book when I have one, or a copy of Star, according to their choice.

Eeee! I can haz cover!

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhhh...traiiiins......

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Not to be confused with braiiiins.

The train was actually my suggestion. In fact, I won the Helpful Authorial Cover Idea lottery this round; I'm the one who suggested flipping the composition of Star's cover, putting London up top and a menacing train at the bottom. I think it came out pretty well!

[alecaustin.livejournal.com]

The train and such looks very nice to me. I think the composition works better than it did on Star, actually.

(Though that may just be the fact that I've always thought that the Dragon on Star looks like he's, um, skydiving.)

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

That Dragon went through several variant forms during the drafts of the cover, I think.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, that is epic.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Which is fitting, for this book.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Trains! Trains! I'm so excited.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

It's fun, seeing who's secretly (or not so secretly) a train enthusiast. :-)

[jimhines.livejournal.com]

Ooh, very nice!!!

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty squeeful, myself. :-)

[stephanieburgis.livejournal.com]

That is GORGEOUS. I can't wait to read it!

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

August! It seems so very far away . . . .

Don't know how to make a link clickable, but there you go

[scribblemyname]

http://pics.livejournal.com/airo25/pic/00048bd2

Re: Don't know how to make a link clickable, but there you go

[scribblemyname]

Apparently, I'm the only one who doesn't know how to make it visible in the thread. :groans:

Trying again.

[scottakennedy.livejournal.com]

Here you go!

[shakatany.livejournal.com]

Here's mine:



Shakatany

[pameladean]

Train train train train TRAIN!

Congratulations!

P.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

That is utterly gorgeous.

[moonandserpent.livejournal.com]

Say, that looks pretty damn nifty.

[danielmc.livejournal.com]

i concur

[elialshadowpine]

Oooooh, how beautiful!

I would make an icon but I suck at icon making myself ;)

[tltrent.livejournal.com]

Woo! What a saucy cover! Can't wait to read it! :)

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I like that.

[akashiver.livejournal.com]

Preeeeeeeeeeetty!

[calico-reaction.livejournal.com]

Oooh, shiny! Very nice! I like how it matches A STAR SHALL FALL!

[danielmc.livejournal.com]

congrats! and, oh. HI!

[shveta-thakrar.livejournal.com]

Hoorayyyy! So lovely.

[ninja-turbo.livejournal.com]

Awesome cover, and it goes very well with A Star Shall Fall. Win!

[gothicsparrow.livejournal.com]

That cover is so pretty! Eeee! It's getting closer to realbook time!

I've just finished reading A Star Shall Fall this morning, and went looking for the spoiler thread, because... because. And had been wondering if the next time I checked, you would have the cover art. And you did!

I found the spoiler thread! It looks lonely...

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Feel free to keep it company. :-) (I posted that thread very late, and several people had already asked their questions elsewhere.)

[gothicsparrow.livejournal.com]

I plan to :) Not so much questions as *flail*, though.

Also, I have an icon for you ^