Thanks heaps! obviously, I adore the cover, but it’s fantastic to hear that I’m not alone. So far everyone seems to be into it! yay!

What. A kick-ass cover.

Good photos, both!

I don’t know if I can take ones that well…

-Tonya

looking forward to meeting you too which reminds me I should post my wiscon schedule . . .

and that’s a beautiful cover.

hope to meet you at wiscon!

“Is it out yet?” – he’s salivating over my keyboard as he strains his eyes to read the copy on the back cover.

I had to break his heart and tell him not until next year. Poor kid.

Shelly: there is no solution, we are all trapped in an eternal hell of overcommunication.

Jonathan: not to worry about my losing my life, my next novel isn’t due till, like, January. I can fritter away . . .

Ben: the dirty secret is the lower case design drives Scott crazy. hee hee.

Niki: why thank you, sister, for the kind words. I can’t take credit, however, the design is called zen minimalist and is by Joni Mueller . All I did was change the colour. I haven’t even figured out how to make the font normal and not all lower case which is the true dirty secret of the ee cummings thing.

Ron: panic not, the punctuation will stay if only to stop Scott from divorcing me. C’mon, how long have you known me? You know I can’t spell! I shall correct it forthwith.

Cheryl: suggest away! No disagreement is allowed, but I’m totallly cool with delirium-induced mad dreams. I promise not to mock your country’s “cricket” team at worldcon. Oh, hang on, my fingers are crossed. Woops.

nalo: they just want to know about the sex. Delete all their emails. Reply only to business emails. except my emails, of course, feel free to keep telling me about the sex.

chris: thanks! It was relatively easy especially with your excellent advice. Sadly, I’m yet to master css. Working on it!

ray: the publishing industry is clearly in a state of total decadence and thus on the brink of collapse. we should all run while we can!

elad: thanks so much for reading the book. Glad you liked it! you don’t review for anyone do you? If you do I could see what I could do about getting you an ARC when they come out in July.

shara: ta. Razorbill have been amazing about how involved they let me be with covers. Just amazing!

mely: what are you doing here?! don’t think you can waltz off and get tickets to see firefly and boast about it and not suffer the dark dire consequences of my raging jealous. you best watch your back at Wiscon. That’s all I’m saying.

Hmm it’s 11AM and I haven’t done any work yet. Ooops.

That is a delicious cover.

i like punctuation, especially semicolons; maybe we can compromise and you can get rid of every form of punctuation except the semicolon.

;

Best of luck on the birth of your blog!

i’m looking forward to your next book! just finished magic or madness this morning, actually, and loved the ending.

Much nicer looking result than the usual stamp-it-out designer twitch. “UNCORRECTED PROOF – NOT FOR SALE” goes good with the title, too. (Loses a little something without the caps, though.)

And that cover looks great.

so absolutely no suggestion that the dastardly poms might actually win a game or two in the ashes series then?

love the jacket! but some weird sort of scandewegian spelling seems to have crept in to your explanations. note that the tree in question is the resolutely australian “moreton bay fig”.

nitpickingly yours

the moreton bay fag

By the way, I like capital letters. Preferably ornate capitals with curliques, demons, tiny monks fighting off snails with sorts and vines. I guess it’s just that medievalist in me.
Et Anon,