Shiny!

[pbray]

Here's the cover for the new book:

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It's a fantastic cover. The scan makes it appear a little darker than it is--someday if I have time I'll play around with things to lighten it up. The ship is entirely wrong, of course, but that's a nitpick.

Now all I have to do is finish the revisions so Bantam has something to stick inside it.

Comments

[princejvstin.livejournal.com]

Very moody looking cover.

Who is the artist?

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Steve Stone, who also did the art for The First Betrayal.

[eeknight.livejournal.com]

Looks like a Stone cover.

It's a thrill to get your cover as you finish up an ms. Always makes me think of the exchange from Ed Wood.

"Is there a script?"
"F--- no! But, there's a poster. Opens in nine weeks in Tulsa."

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

Oh, nice!

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Precisely!

[aeriedraconia.livejournal.com]

It's lovely and broody. Nice!

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Which is exactly what I wanted.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

very nice and broody...

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Now I just have to make the inside dark enough to match the cover :-)

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

That's *exactly* the issue I faced. According to my editor, I did it.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Congrats on embracing the dark side. When I see you at Wiscon, we'll have to trade war stories.

[dancingwriter.livejournal.com]

Oo, what an awesome cover--it totally makes me pop over to amazon and add the book to my wishlist! Congrats on getting such great art!

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much. The art department at Bantam is fantastic-- as is the artist Steve Stone who did this cover and the cover for The First Betrayal.

I've been really happy with all of the covers that Bantam has done for me.

[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

It's great!

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

Wow. Fabulous cover.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I've been thrilled with all of my Bantam covers.

[janni.livejournal.com]

Very shiny! :-)

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I like what you did with the head shot as icon. I've asked Chris McGrath if I can do the same with the ENDGAME image.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

That head shot is on the spine of the book, which is a very cool effect. You can see the full cover here. (http://pics.livejournal.com/pbray/pic/0000f1ae/g2)

I had an LJ icon for the earlier book which was just the front cover shrunk down to 100 pixel size, but for this book there's not a strong enough contrast to keep the typeface readable, so I'm going with the headshot instead.

[libwitch.livejournal.com]

*glee*

I was WONDERING when you were going to get around to the sequel, then I remembered I read First Betrayal on vacation in June last year, so it hasn;t been as long as I thought. I am eagerly waiting...

Very nice cover 0-- such a nice contrast to the last one, it fits nicely with where the last book left off!

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Writing book two took longer than either Bantam or I wanted, but now it's just down to the revisions....

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Gooorgeous! I can't wait to read it. *beam*

[jlawrenceperry.livejournal.com]

To quote a film:

"That. Was. AWWWWESOME! But sorry about your ship, dude."

[pbray.livejournal.com]

:-)