My book cover!

The lovely Amanda let me know that my book is available for pre-order on Amazon UK, and that the cover image is displayed there. So I guess I can show it to you now, after all! I'm so glad, because I really love it and have been dying to show everyone. This is the cover for the hardback edition coming out early next year.



Whee! What do you think?

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Things seem to be falling into place, time-wise, and I am relieved. We have been in limbo for a while now, and I do not like limbo. Except the dance. I quite like the dance.

I have almost finished the new book. It is exciting to see it falling into place; there is clearly a connection between my state of mind and the book's progress, which I guess is really not that surprising. While we were uncertain about when we were leaving, I felt lost in my writing as well. Now that there is a crystallised plan, I can see the book more clearly as well. I would really love to have it finished before we go, so that I can start a new project once we get there. New location, new book! I already have something in the works (the first couple of chapters are floating about in Andrea's Hard Drive, a place which bears a striking resemblance to the island on Lost, except with worse lighting). There are still a few extra scenes that need to be written, but ideally I would like to be able to take the final draft on the plane with me for proofing as we fly. We'll see.

As far as The Cry of the Go-Away Bird goes, it is looking scarily like a real, live book! Seeing the typeset pages and the full cover, complete with blurb, is so exciting. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that more foreign rights will sell in the next few months, but I am greatly looking forward to the Dutch translation too.

Thanks, as always, for all your comments!