Just got my own first look at the cover (Barnes and Noble) and it’s nice!
Deceiver now available for pre-order at Amazon, B/N
by CJ | Mar 14, 2010 | Journal | 61 comments
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I think the cover looks terrific…happy you like it. 😆 It must be a drag when you see a cover and wonder if the artist had any idea of the content. 🙁
Is it available in ebook form anywhere? I have a Sony Reader.
If it is going to come out in e-book, the likeliest place for any DAW book is the DAW e-book section of Penguin, under my name, which takes an act of congress to search for. I’m going to add this bookmark to the sidebar, under Links, so you can find my books from my New York publisher, the master-list of which doesn’t even have DAW listed…ain’t that lovely?
http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Search/QuickSearchProc/1,,Author_1000006551,00.html
I checked out the link, thanks! It was encouraging that “Destroyer” is available in ePub format at a reasonable price. But if it isn’t released at the same time as the hardcover, it’s going to be hard to wait! 🙂
Had to take a look at the cover and I think it looks great! I have bought books before because of the cover alone. Sometimes something just grabs me when I see a cover. This cover would definitely fit that category. I have been grabbed and now I can’t wait for May. Before I saw the cover, May seemed just around the corner, now I’m anxious to read this book and May seems quite a few corners away! Darn!
Hehe, I pre-ordered weeks ago, at my local SF bookshop.
I usually do, I want to keep both you and them in business 😀
Very pretty! Though I do wonder how dire things have to be for Bren to be walking around in public with his hair down. I’m looking forward to reading the book.
It could be in a very loose braid on the back. I’m thinking that part of what looks like hair on the front is the coat collar.
And who does these covers? They are pretty nice.
We’ll call it a very loose braid: you’ll notice a similar configuration in Bren’s bodyguard. AND, one should recall, there is a tendency for style and fashion to shift, so I suppose longer hair and a looser braid COULD happen. The body language, note, is perfect.
And actually, by this scene, Bren is lucky to be able to muster a composed appearance. 😉
I was thinking he didn’t look happy. I can’t say that his staff looks pleased, either, especially with all the hardware out and ready.
That’s what I thought too! Wardrobe malfunction. Fortunately the rest of it is pretty enough to make up for it.
Ordered now on Amazon.fr. continue the good work Ms cherryh.
super cover! they did you proud this time …. looks really exciting
I think Invader is still my favorite cover (Michael Whelan is awesome after all), but I do like the last few including this one. Very eye catchy.
The covers are very important to me too! I admit that I study them minutely. My favorite Foreigner
cover has the Uncle’s lilies chipped and shattered by gun fire. Lovely art work.
I begin every new book holding my breath until
I am sure that the wonderful character of Ilisidi (not close to books,may be misspelled)is still able to warm my heart.
I can hardly wait to clutch and study the new one.
I forgot about Amazon!
I will get it just before you guys meet here in Missoula. My attendance will depend,but I remain hopeful!
So do we: to help in planning for Missoula, to our great distress—OSG and Jane and I found that our tickets for Stars on Ice, bought months ago, coincide with opening day of Miscon! So we are going to go to the ice show, then drive over to Missoula early Saturday. My advice would be to time your arrival at the convention for Saturday about 10…function areas like the art show and dealer’s room will start opening up about then we’ll arrive probably close to that, and so on.
Speaking for myself, I’ll take any “teasers” I can get, even if it makes the wait for the finished product seem that . . . much . . . longer.
Sadly I am not coming to MisCon. Finances are a little too tight and that trip is pricey for me. Hoepfully next year, I’m about 3/4 through my book now.
Alas. We entirely understand. I can’t believe we got doublebooked on Friday. I love this convention, I missed it entirely last year because I was there, but too sick with the flu to remember much of it except that I’d agreed to come to San Diego this year—and here I am all primed to enjoy this year, and I lose Friday. Sigh. I am determined to have a good day Saturday and Sunday!
Is there a fee? I may not be able to stay all day
unless I can get a room for rest. The only conventions I’ve ever been to was for tropical fish. I did get to travel around when a fish club would ask me to judge a show. It would be nice to have at least one more adventure!
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I’ll order the book on B & N or buy it at Pandemonium, our local Sci-Fi bookstore in Cambridge, MA. Yes, this cover is intriguing. I loved the Whelan covers and was devastated (a strong verb, but basically true) when Whelan stopped doing the covers that caught both Bren and the Atevi so well and whomever did the the 3rd book, I believe it was, came along. That wasn’t Bren at all but some woose (wus?)! I have actually spent many a long span of minutes looking at the original, Foreigner cover. I really like the balance in it and weight/foregrounding+midgrounding of the three figures.
CJ, have you ever asked your brother to do a cover, or is it a contractual thing with the publisher and not in your hands? Do publishers have certain artists with whom they deal and don’t accept “outside” artists? I’d be curious to see what David would do with such a cover as Deceiver.
How much control do you have over the actual appearance of the cover? I recall that the cover of Destroyer made Bren look less like a lord and more like a lassie, despite the presence of the pistol in his hand.
Not even the editor has control over the covers these days: the art department does.
The art director has his favorite artists. These change by the hour—or the pitched fit. My brother is happy to be out of the cover biz: it’s too crazy—some committee member decides to do a ‘tweak’ that throws the entire color balance and requires an entire re-paint, for no more money; or the distributor takes exception to a cover and refuses to take any orders for the book unless the house trashes the cover and starts completely over, sometimes after the presses are rolling.
You’ve read the writers’ complaints about the craziness in New York; the artists have their own list of laments, and so do the editors, not all of them unconnected.
The miracle is when, in spite of it all, an artist succeeds doing something as fine as this cover.
Lovely cover! I must say I’m surprised that publishers don’t even show authors what their covers will look like. But then again, logic and publishing houses don’t seem to meet each other very often.
SOmetimes they show us once they know—but I imagine DAW was pretty busy and didn’t get around to it this time. Re the orginal question re how much control we have: no control, but DAW found out a long time ago I will talk sensibly to the artists, and this artist called me and asked for details of some scenes. I provided them, and with very happy result.
Very nice cover art, CJ, I like. I have to say, I felt as if some of the early Foreigner-series covers had nadi Bren looking a little too girly for the character as you write him. I’m not saying he has to look like some Edgar Rice Burroughs hero, after all his best weapon is his mind, but still… Here it looks as if he Means Business.
Bravo!
Now I just have to wait until the book hits the shelves, dammit.
I am absolutely delighted with the body language. This is Bren in motion and on a mission. And he looks the right age.
He does look very menacing, doesn’t he? I don’t think I’d like to see that party headed toward me.
Ooo yeah. Sumbudeez in Beeg Trubble (taking a page from LOLcats).
Oh, it is deLIGHTful! I’m so looking forward to this moment in the book. May? MAY? WAHHHHHHH!!!!
Deceiver ordered! 🙂 😀 😆 Now the WAITING!
Nerd Alert! There is some really neat Dr. Who stuff over at WETA just click on Dr. Who.
We have had so much rain that the hole we dug for the coming fish pond is full….it will drain quickly once the ground thaws….the top of the hill is glacial moraine…..in the meantime we are soggy….no water lack this summer!
ORDERED! WOO HOO! You and Jim Butcher are the ones I get the most excited about. One of those “I got it in the mail! Maybe I’ll stay home from work!” sorts of excitement. (Although I usually go to work, come home and stay up all night reading to the end, then go to work on 45 min. of sleep.) The cover’s pretty awesome too, although I think the original Foreigner cover is still my favorite. The protectiveness of Banichi and Jago, and Bren’s apprehension and confusion about what the hell was going on were perfectly captured, I felt. Besides, I liked the symmetry. I think this might be my second favorite cover, although I did like the shot-up lilies too. Man, May is forever away…