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  • Apr. 11th, 2008 at 5:49 PM
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Speaking of things that were many, many years in the making.... cover art for my periapocalyptic noir Norse steampunk technofantasy All the Windwracked Stars, which is coming from Tor this October:




Yes. I'm geeked. (Right-click and view image for a giant beautiful version.)

I started writing this book in 1993, and it was the first grown-up novel I ever completed. (Very early in 2002.)

I've revised it. Er. A lot over the years.

And now, fifteen years in the making, it's going to be on bookshelves.

This is a book of my heart, this one, and I am just beside myself with geekery. I swear unto you, it even has the cover art I would have chosen for it.

How often does that happen?

This is going to be a very good year.
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[info]scottakennedy wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 09:45 pm (UTC)
That cover's as lovely as the book's title. Nice!
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[info]effloresense wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 09:46 pm (UTC)
Oh that just looks wicked cool.
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[info]cjtremlett wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 09:47 pm (UTC)
Congratulations. That's stunning!
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[info]hominysnark wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 09:50 pm (UTC)
Wow, that's gorgeous! Who's the artist, do you know?
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[info]casacorona wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 09:52 pm (UTC)
Jean-Sébastien Rossbach
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[info]gauroth wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 09:51 pm (UTC)
Oh, fabulous! (In every sense of the word!) And I see that some wise person has called it 'a sci fi (sic) essential book.
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[info]kuroshii wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 10:24 pm (UTC)
no need to say "sic," i believe, as that's the Sci Fi Channel they mean. that's definitely their logo above the words.
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[info]glinda_w wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 09:52 pm (UTC)
That is beautiful.
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[info]kaz_mahoney wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 09:54 pm (UTC)
I felt genuinely moved, reading your post. I've only been following your blog for a couple of years but, by going back through archives (both here and in your old blog), I can see that this book means so much to you.

Beautiful, beautiful cover! I'm happy for you. :)
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[info]thought1 wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 09:56 pm (UTC)
I already have it pre-ordered. (:
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[info]casacorona wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 09:57 pm (UTC)
Yay you! That's what we like to see!
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[info]jtdiii wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 10:07 pm (UTC)
Now that is a sub-genre that you do not find all that often. :)

Congrats!

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[info]slothman wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 10:09 pm (UTC)
Did the kitten with a whip make it into the final version?
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[info]casacorona wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 10:11 pm (UTC)
LOL. She has a skateboard, too.
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[info]theillusionist wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 10:09 pm (UTC)
Congratulations! That cover is pretty awesome-possum.
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[info]cmpriest wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 10:09 pm (UTC)
Ma'am, that is spectacular!
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[info]scarlettina wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 10:12 pm (UTC)
Congratulations!
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[info]jonquil wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 10:14 pm (UTC)
That is an old-skool beautiful cover.

I bet it sells many, many copies.

May 2008 be full of even more joy.
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[info]fiction_theory wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 10:22 pm (UTC)
My heartiest congrats! I love the cover art, and I can't wait until I can get my grubby little hands on it. Please let us know the very nanosecond copies become available.
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[info]coppervale wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 10:24 pm (UTC)
That is BEAUTIFUL, Bear...

Can't wait to see/read it.
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[info]alankria wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 10:23 pm (UTC)
Oh wow. I didn't know what to expect from the little you've mentioned of this book since I started reading this blog, but wow, that's certainly something striking and unexpected, in a very good way. Really looking forward to it. =D

Huzzah for good things!

(And it heartens me for purely personal reasons to see that a book can be 15 years in the making and come to this, rather than just a bunch of files with many, many subdirectories stuck in a big folder on the desktop.)
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[info]rhianon76 wrote:
Apr. 12th, 2008 02:25 am (UTC)
*lolz* yeah, I was thinking the exact same thing as I read her post. "So glad I am not the only one who has a storyline and whatnot that has been developing, evolving, and otherwise collecting dust in the corners of one's mind for the past decade and a half."

And the cover art.... *goggles* This is one book I will not hesitate to purchase a hard copy of. Yummy.
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[info]apis_mellifera wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 10:25 pm (UTC)
That is a lovely, lovely, lovely cover. I can't wait to read the book!

Also, I'm getting a Brisingamen-ish feeling from the cover, which makes me all warm and fuzzy inside because dammit, I love that book.
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[info]herewiss13 wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 10:28 pm (UTC)
Congratulations! The cover looks very striking.

I was really happy when I found your website and discovered there was the start of an entire _series_ I hadn't known about coming to stores in 2008 (my yearly books-to-get list has a definite 'Bear' tilt this year).

I wonder how many new readers will draw into your authorial ambit by "Shadow Unit"? (and the ambits of the other creators, of course)
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[info]matociquala wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 10:33 pm (UTC)
First of all, if your username is a Door Into Fire reference, I already like you. *g*

Second, I wonder too.
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[info]also_huey wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 10:29 pm (UTC)
Ah, the rare Pronghorn Cerebugasus! Good to see him getting some modeling work, I know he's been out of the public eye for a while.
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[info]kalorlo wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 10:30 pm (UTC)
Eeeee, awesome! I've been looking forward to this one :)
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[info]fadethecat wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 10:36 pm (UTC)
What a gorgeous cover! And I get a warm fuzzy feeling for a book with "wrack" in its title. There should be more wracking about.
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[info]deakat wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 10:38 pm (UTC)
Amazing! Can I has poster for my wall?
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[info]karenthology wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 10:45 pm (UTC)
Oh, that's just wonderful!
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[info]mandolinjen wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 10:49 pm (UTC)
ooooo ... nice!
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[info]carla_scribbles wrote:
Apr. 11th, 2008 10:53 pm (UTC)
Oooooh, man.

If you look up Awesome in the dictionary, I think, that is the picture you see next to it.
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[info]princejvstin wrote:
Apr. 12th, 2008 12:52 pm (UTC)
"I've seen Awesome before. This is exactly what it looks like."

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