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Old 10-03-2015, 04:21 PM   #31
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And going back to Baen, one of Lois Bujold's publishers

Aha. My present from UPS today was a box of my author's copies of the upcoming Baen reprint of Shards of Honor, due to hit stores November 3rd, straight from the printer. A slim but very clean trade paperback.
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Old 10-04-2015, 07:24 AM   #32
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And going back to Baen, one of Lois Bujold's publishers

Aha. My present from UPS today was a box of my author's copies of the upcoming Baen reprint of Shards of Honor, due to hit stores November 3rd, straight from the printer. A slim but very clean trade paperback.
They forgot to drop another text block on the lower left corner.
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Old 10-06-2015, 05:52 AM   #33
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And back to Lois "wants is to have her reprinted books recognised".

Next up is Cetaganda

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blo...veal-cetaganda

The Great Key.
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Old 10-06-2015, 06:55 AM   #34
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I just wish McMaster Bujold had nice covers for her books... The ones in post #3 aren't much better than her other, very cringeworthy covers...
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And back to Lois "wants is to have her reprinted books recognised".

Next up is Cetaganda

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blo...veal-cetaganda

The Great Key.
The great key against a map of the wormhole nexus?
Very nice, especially given the underlying plot.
I wish she would do another Cetaganda story. Maybe featuring Miles' kids.
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And Borders of Infinity (Three Novellas with the Miles in Hospital linking story)

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blo...rs-of-infinity

And now Komarr

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blo...-reveal-komarr

"Deceptively simple"
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Old 10-09-2015, 09:01 AM   #37
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"Deceptively simple"
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Old 10-10-2015, 01:47 PM   #38
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And Shards of Honor

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'It took several passes to come up with this one -- the first three not-there-yet style-mock-ups, plus another this 4th series. Saw this one, laughed, and thought "I have to have this." I am not at all sure how Ron came up with it -- it was a surprise to me. I have no idea what potential readers will make of it, but it certainly sums up something essential about the relationship between the two main characters at one glance. "The outward and visible form of an inward and invisible grace", to paraphrase.'
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Old 10-14-2015, 08:35 AM   #39
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And The Warrior's Apprentice


https://www.goodreads.com/author_blo...r-s-apprentice

"The figure, I think, is that six-foot-tall Miles that lurks in his head and ambushes him from time to time. The motion is all Miles."
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and Diplomatic Immunity

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'I think of this as "The Creepy Babies Cover".

So very apropos to the book -- almost a spoiler -- although it's also the one I'm most uncertain about in terms of customer response. '

It is less alarming at a smaller magnification. Which is mostly how it will appear, on the vendor sites.


(I have added the very busy Baen cover.)
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That does seem like one of the dominant criteria for the new covers...
Might start a trend of thumbnail-focused designs.
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That does seem like one of the dominant criteria for the new covers...
Might start a trend of thumbnail-focused designs.
Indeed and here is Barrayar on Amazon ahead of Lois's posts
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This one doesn't work for me. 'Warrior's Apprentice' is such a generic name I want something more specific to let browsers know this is Space Opera not Fantasy or Historical or ... just about any genre. Especially since its a gateway novel.
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I want to see some of those horrible covers.

I have a fish that's been sitting on the dinner table for three weeks. Are those old covers that bad?


She doesn't own the rights to the covers, so needs new ones.
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This one doesn't work for me. 'Warrior's Apprentice' is such a generic name I want something more specific to let browsers know this is Space Opera not Fantasy or Historical or ... just about any genre. Especially since its a gateway novel.
See up thread.

The idea is that the cover art will tell readers it's part of a series AND SF.

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