A great weekend so far

[pbray]

Yesterday's booksigning was a success, largely due to co-conspirators jpsorrow and jennifer_dunne and our gracious hosts at Waldenbooks including fireun and libwitch. A picture of the event can be found here on fireun's lj. We sold books, made new friends, and in general had a blast hanging out at the store.

As you may guess from my icon, I now have cover art in hand for THE FINAL SACRIFICE.




Another great cover by Steve Stone.

Don't you love the "my lion totally rules this planet statue?"

The scans don't do justice to the amazing details--in the cover flats you can see the lizard on the lizard crown, among other cool touches.

Alas that's the end of fun for this weekend--the year-end finance close continues apace, which means I have to log on and run database jobs this afternoon. Still it was great while it lasted.

Comments

[jtglover.livejournal.com]

Nice. I think that one's the best of the batch, though I liked the others well enough.

[jtglover.livejournal.com]

Oh, also congrats on the TV interview and signing! I clicked the link and was duly amazed/amused at the deer in the headlights.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I agree the cover is the best he's done, and the art department at Bantam was also impressed.

The TV interview is a riot. As is the internet--10 years ago our performance would be confined to VHS tapes under lock & key, while today we can inflict them on all our friends. I *think* that's progress.

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

That's gorgeous!

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Plus it has LIZARDS!

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, it's beautiful! I love it! Yaaay!

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

That's really nice!

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Steve Stone does a great job of imagining the world from the meager details that I provided.

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

Is that Ysobel in the center?

[pbray.livejournal.com]

On the spine of the book? It's quite possibly intended to be her, but if so, the artist completely missed the physical description I'd given for Ysobel. In truth it looks very similar to my critique partner jennifer_dunne.

The kneeling figure inspired a spirited debate over whether it was male or female. The votes were 4 for female and 2 for male (including my vote), and thus male won, since as the author my vote counts at least thrice.

But these are mere picayune details. The important fact is that the cover is absolutely gorgeous and eye-catching.

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

Heh. I meant the kneeling figure, whose gender I, too was unsure of, but was going with "female" tentatively. The woman on the spine does look like Jennifer.

[califmole.livejournal.com]

Yay, glad to hear that it was a success!

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Thanks! We missed you.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Lovely!

[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

Pretty! Shiny! Lizardy! :D

[allaboutm-e.livejournal.com]

Eeeee! Lizardy happiness!

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Cause in the end, it's all about the lizards :-)