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Home again, bumpy and shiny

Emily called me up while I was in Pittsburgh to tell me that my editor Paul had mailed out the cover flats for Crystal Rain’s paperback edition to me.

“They’re embossed,” she said.

“You mean, like the title and name are all bumpy when you touch them and flashy when you look at them?” I asked.

“Yeah.”

“Squeeeee!”

Emily met me in Findlay for dinner and had one of them with her. As advertised, they were bumpy and shiny, which is pretty darn cool. A lot of covers are flat, the shiny bumpy ones catch people’s attention more, so it’s pretty cool that Tor did this.

The art department also shifted my name to the bottom and made it bigger (and silvery-ier, and did I mention bumpy?) which was a surprise, and then the cover includes the Kevin J. Anderson quote on the front and the Booklist quote on the back after the cover copy.

Crystal Rain the hardcover was a beautiful package. The paperback is even prettier, thanks to the hard work of Paul, Irene Gallo for the original art, and the design department (Seth Lerner takes care of mass market design, and Pablo Defendini did the hands on work of the design, kudos!).

That was a nice authorly thing to come home to.

Even better is to get home to Emily (though she’s out running errands right now). The dogs seemed excited to see me as well, as far as ‘let me out to go pee’ excited, and the cats, as usual, couldn’t give a shit that I was gone or came home.

Maybe when their food runs out I’ll get an impatient meow.

Filed under the topic My Writing: My Books: Crystal Rain on January 9th 2007 at 7:35 pm. You can subscribe to the RSS feed for this entry to keep track of comments. You can also use to trackback.

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11 Responses so far

1. camille on Jan 9th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
Cats give a shit. They just pretend not to; it’s their shtick.
2. Horia Nicola Ursu on Jan 10th, 2007 at 12:09 am
Congratulations for your inclusion in the Nebula preliminary ballot. I’m keeping my fingers crossed!
3. Horia Nicola Ursu on Jan 10th, 2007 at 12:19 am
By the way, the SFWA Nebula announcement page says “full copies available upon request from author”. Does this mean you’re giving readers the oportunity to read the whole novel? I only read the first third on your website (your novel hasn’t showed up yet on bookshelves in Romania, hehe) and would die to read the rest.
4. Craig Jackson on Jan 10th, 2007 at 2:29 am
Hi,
I just saw that it’s on the preliminary Nebula ballot; congratulations!
5. Steve Buchheit on Jan 10th, 2007 at 7:29 am
Cats. What can you do?
Bumpy and shiny, cool beans, dude.
6. Steve Buchheit on Jan 10th, 2007 at 7:46 am
BTW, congrats on the Nebula ballot. You rascal you.
Go, Tobias, go!
7. Mark Terry on Jan 10th, 2007 at 9:19 am
Very cool. Congrats.
8. Tobias Buckell on Jan 10th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
thanks for the prelim nebula ballot congrats, I should post about it soon
Horia, full copies are available for SFWA members only, sadly.
9. Horia Nicola Ursu on Jan 10th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Damn. I knew I should have been born elsewhere… I wonder if they accept as members editors from recently europeanized countries like Romania, who only have their name on an anthology, so far, and on a half-shelf of translations…
Let us take another approach… If an editor from Romania would wish to read the novel, in the eventuality of a translation, to whom should he speak? I’m serious here: would you agree to a Romanian translation? I am executive editor for Millennium Press (see here: http://www.millenniumpress.ro for my company’s webpage, and a few sentences about me in Jeff VanderMeer’s January Locus article, and also in his latest SF Site column… in his previous two too, after all…)
10. Tobias Buckell on Jan 10th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Horia, check your email, I have a response and some more info in it!
11. Horia Nicola Ursu on Jan 10th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Thanks for your answer You’ve got mail

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