Books! With Glue!

[pameladean]

I quite forgot to mention that the other cheering occurrence, possibly better than vitamins, was that Sharyn sent me advance copies of the first two Secret Country books in their shiny new matching reprint covers. Long ago, when the Scribblies were newly published, Steve Brust observed that the profound difference between the page proofs and the final actual book must be attributable to the glue. The glue has done its magic again.

David came upstairs with the camera Just in Case the package should be those books, and took a photo of me holding them up, which is now on my website. I can never remember the URL. Okay, here it is.

http://www.dd-b.net/pddb/

They are really quite beautiful.

Pamela

Comments

[sdorn.livejournal.com]

The covers are finally what the books deserve, though the republication for me is more important than the covers. I know Kathryn will enjoy reading them for the first time.

[pameladean]

Well, I am glad that something about the entire weird publication history of this series is well-timed.

The cover for Whim is quite spiffy too; all red with a fantastic sunset and a not-too-shabby Belaparthalion inside the globe. It's a lovely set.

Pamela

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

For me the timing is perfect: a book I've looked for since I was leaving Minnesota, popping up right after my guys and I move back there. Depending on when in October they come out, they may be the very first thing I buy on my return. I'm having a totally emotional fangirl moment about that. How embarrassing, and yet how wonderful.

(I would wish you less weirdness of publication history, and I would wish me more of your books. But as we can't always get what we wish for, this looks pretty good, too. Congrats. They, and you, look great.)

[pameladean]

Oh, that's lovely timing too.

Realistically, a lot of the people whom I knew when these books were available will now have children about old enough to like them. So in a slightly more over-arching sense, that's very good timing.

Pamela