Today I bring you many emotions courtesy of my lovely US publisher, Candlewick Press, who sent me two things last week that made my bottom lip wobble (just a tiny, tasteful amount).
First up, the copyedit/pass pages for the US edition of Frail Human Heart. I worked on them over the weekend and sent them off on Tuesday. This is them after I'd shuffled them all together again and was about to put them in a big brown envelope for the post:
You might be little confused as to why this would make me feel ALL THE EMOTIONS or why I felt the need to snap a picture. But consider. Copyedits/pass pages are literally the last stage that a book goes through before it's sent off to the copyeditor and actually becomes a book. This is the final book of the trilogy. What that means is that this is the last time I will ever do work on or make changes to the trilogy. Ever. When I sealed up that big envelope to send it off to Candlewick Press (or rather, to my editor at Walker so that she could send it to Candlewick Press) I was saying goodbye to The Name of the Blade for the final, final time.
Goodbye, my darling!
*Blubs* *Waves hanky*
And just when America had reduced me to an attack of the feels once, another parcel arrived from the lovely Miriam (my US editor), and this one held shiny goodness of the Darkness Hidden kind:
Yes, it's the US dust jacket - brilliant blood red with red and silver stamped foil and the Name of the Blade logo (which, I just will never ever get over having a logo, hee hee!).
I decided to see what it will look like as a finished book by wrapping it around the US hardback of The Night Itself/The Name of the Blade:
So pretty, right? And it has the most lovely quotes on the back from reviews of The Night Itself/Darkness Hidden on the back! And look at it next to it's big sister!
*Lip wobbles again*
So yes, all the feels from Candlewick. Thank you, Miriam! *Hugs*
Just a note: the UK paperback edition of Frail Human Heart is up to seven lovely reviews on Amazon right now. When it reaches ten reviews, I'll pick one of the reviewers to receive a really special, unique trilogy-themed gift pack, so if you've read it and have something to say, get in there.
Read you lately, my lovelies!
4 comments:
I love all your covers, they're always so well done! Most of the way through FHH right now and it's fantastic :)
Thank you and THANK you, Isabel - it's lovely to hear that :)
The hardbacks are BEAUTIFUL! I'm so tempted to order them but I'm supposed to be on a buying ban LOL. My review is already up on Amazon but I hope you get to way more than 10 ASAP :-) this series deserves all the recognition!
Oh Sarah, me too! My shelves are literally bowing in the middle with the weight of all the books I haven't even read yet. I loved your review, by the way, and appreciate it very much :)
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