Birthmarked
Birthmarked Is Out in Paperback
(These remarks are cross-posted on the MacKids site.)
The moment of Birthmarked’s paperback release gives me a portal into a little time travel. It invites me to leap forward because, for any readers who are about to discover Gaia’s story, the paperback is now the real thing. This is the gritty version you’ll read at the beach or squish at the bottom of your backpack, while the hardcover will shortly become a quaint artifact from an earlier time, a sturdy tome you might find on your… Continue reading
More on Covers
A month from now when Prized comes out in the U.S., it’s also coming out in the U.K., Australia and La France. I find it cool that the covers are all different, and that the cover artists for each country not only designed one cover, but clearly planned for the subsequent covers to evolve through the series. They had to do this before the books were even written. That boggles my mind.
My editor and I have recently been discussing cover art concepts for Promised, the… Continue reading
Spain (Birthmarked in!)
Here’s the cover of Birthmarked in Spain, where it came out yesterday. It’s sweet to see the same U.S. artwork used with another language.
From the Everest site:
En un mundo futuro agostado por el sol inclemente, donde el agua es más valiosa que el oro, hay quienes viven dentro de las murallas del Enclave y quienes, como Gaia Stone, comadrona de dieciséis años, viven extramuros. Gaia siempre ha creído que su deber, como el de su madre, es entregar una pequeña cuota de bebés saludables a los residentes… Continue reading
Friends and Writers at the BBF
What most surprised me about the Brooklyn Book Festival was how big it was, and how many people were meandering around looking at books, reading on the steps, and filling up the chairs for the panels. At first, it was too much to take in, but once I had a map and saw where the Youth Stoop stage was, I had my landmark for the day.
Caragh M. O'Brien, Bill Willingham, Jewell Parker Rhodes, and moderator Susan Chang. Another World Panel, Youth Stoop, BBF.
I enjoyed being on the… Continue reading
Powerless, Thanks to Irene
Wires Very Down
We’re among the 700,000+ in Connecticut who are without power since Irene hit, and I expect we’ll be this way for quite some time. Fortunately:
We’re all fine.
Our neighbors are all fine.
We were able to rig a siphon so the sump pump can drain down a pipe in the basement instead of overflowing.
We still have water.
The UConn Library is open so I can post this and spend the day with my computer plugged in so I can work.
I can probably take… Continue reading
Prized Cover in the UK
The Amazon.co.uk site has uploaded the cover for Prized, which will be published by Simon & Schuster Children’s Books in the United Kingdom and Australia in November, just a couple days after it will be released in the U.S.
In case you can’t read the tag line, it says “In a world where an innocent kiss is a crime, deciding who to love will cost more than your heart.” Clever. I did not come up with that, incidentally.
Here are the two UK covers so far… Continue reading