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Sly Mongoose: Cover

Can you dig it? Yeah.

Sly Mongoose-1

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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12 Responses so far

  1. 1. Jim C. Hines

    Very nice!

  2. 2. Steve Buchheit

    KEWL! Excellent cover there, Tobias.

  3. 3. Jim Hetley

    The girl has too much clothing on. Other than that, it has all the elements — death rays, space ships, explosions….

    Looks good.

  4. 4. Jim Hetley

    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. 5. SciFiChick

    Very cool!

  6. 6. David Louis Edelman

    That cover so rocks. I can’t wait to see it side-by-side on my shelf alongside Crystal Rain and Ragamuffin.

  7. 7. DKT

    That’s a fantastic looking cover!

  8. 8. Jeff Hotchkiss

    Awesome art by Lockwood. And I love the colors/font of the title.

  9. 9. SMD

    Wicked awesome cover! Can’t wait to read the book :) .

  10. 10. Tobias Buckell

    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. 11. Shara Saunsaucie

    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. 12. Jeremy

    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).

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