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Sly Mongoose: Cover
Can you dig it? Yeah.
I see people are already pre-ordering it on Amazon.
Paul (my editor) says the copy edited manuscript hits my doorstep tomorrow. Once I comb through that, then it winds its way through the machines of publication to magically become a book.
If everything works out, I’d like to post the first chapter sometime in January on the Sly Mongoose page for everyone.
Filed under the topic My Writing: My Books: Sly Mongoose on December 18th 2007 at 2:55 am. 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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1. Jim C. Hines on Dec 18th, 2007 at 8:19 am
Very nice!
2. Steve Buchheit on Dec 18th, 2007 at 8:26 am
KEWL! Excellent cover there, Tobias.
3. Jim Hetley on Dec 18th, 2007 at 8:36 am
The girl has too much clothing on. Other than that, it has all the elements — death rays, space ships, explosions….
Looks good.
4. Jim Hetley on Dec 18th, 2007 at 8:57 am
Forgot to mention — at least as far as I can tell at this resolution, those aren’t Caucasoids on the cover. We have advanced.
5. SciFiChick on Dec 18th, 2007 at 9:18 am
Very cool!
6. David Louis Edelman on Dec 18th, 2007 at 9:51 am
That cover so rocks. I can’t wait to see it side-by-side on my shelf alongside Crystal Rain and Ragamuffin.
7. DKT on Dec 18th, 2007 at 11:53 am
That’s a fantastic looking cover!
8. Jeff Hotchkiss on Dec 18th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Awesome art by Lockwood. And I love the colors/font of the title.
9. SMD on Dec 18th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Wicked awesome cover! Can’t wait to read the book
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10. Tobias Buckell on Dec 18th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Thank you all, I love the colors and the font, and the cover, it’s an awesome package. I can’t wait to get this on my shelf either!!!
11. Shara Saunsaucie on Dec 18th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
That’s my favorite art of the three!
Though, I’m sure it’ll be fine when I see it in person, on the monitor, it doesn’t look like the color in the title matches the rest of the art!
12. Jeremy on Dec 19th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
I gotta second Shara on the title color being a little striking. On the other hand, we get spaceship and a guy with a really big gun. And it’s what’s inside that counts
You gotta love the evolution of the covers, from the primitive airships over a jungle world, to gunslingers shooting it up in freefall, now to an advanced world with a battle raging around it. I think the covers convey the books nicely (gonna have to see if it’s on preorder in Japamazon).