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Cover art for Первое предательство by Патриция Брей, otherwise known as the Rusisan edition of THE FIRST BETRAYAL. Very cool.



There were several reviews out on a discussion board, but the Google assisted translation renders all comments hilarious, making it impossible to tell if they were originally meant as praise or scorn. Come to think of it, I ought to run an English to Russian and then reverse translation before reading my Amazon reviews.

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.

( Click here for the full cover )

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.

In today's cool news department, the Russian language edition of DEVLIN'S HONOR (Честь Девлина) has been released:



As you'll see, they've gone to the other extreme from the first book in the series, DEVLIN'S LUCK (Выбор Девлина), where he was practically naked.
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And apparently transliterating Patricia Bray to Патриция Брей and then back again into the Roman alphabet yields Patriciya Brei, which is how I'm listed at some Russian language book sites. Pretty cool stuff.

Bewitching Kittens was published in the US in 1998 and rapidly sold out its print run, but it continues to crop up in new places. In today's mail I received a copy of the Swiss edition, a lovely hardcover.

Briefly I was confused by the title, since I recognized "Auf weichen Tatzen ins Glück" as the title of the German edition published by Lübbe, however this cover didn't match, and further investigation revealed a new ISBN. A little web surfing and I found out that Weltbild is based in Switzerland, which also explains why their website sells books in francs.

Their online bookstore has both German language editions for sale, if you'd like to compare covers. Neither cover gives a shout out to "Halloween themed Regency set novellas featuring kittens" but they're nearly as cute as the original.