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Paper Copy of The Confederacy of Heaven

I’ve got some exciting news.

A graduate student from Spain and I have been working together for a few months now – she’s been using the text of The Confederacy of Heaven to make a mock publicity campaign for her thesis project.  Part of the project is to create a mock-up of a paper copy of the book.  She just sent me photos.

Needless to say, I’m pleased as all getout with what she’s done here.  And if you’re curious about the translation from Spanish, here’s a best effort:

Title:  The Journey to Calgary

Text on the back:  For two hundred years, the human race has been punished by the stars.  Since then, it hasn’t rained a single time.  The Earth is dying little by little, and the only one who can save the planet, Nasan of the Clan of the Rattling Bones, feels too lost to confront that task … alone.

(You can click on the pictures to see them bigger!)

ETA of The Confederacy of Heaven is September 15

This is contingent on whether Podiobooks has problems with the formatting of my podcast audio files, but at the moment, the forecast is good.

For the rest of the summer, I’m going to be teasing you mercilessly with excerpts from the text and illustrations.  I’m going to be telling everybody I know and their uncle about this book.  I don’t think I marketed Grizelda effectively enough, and I want to do better the second time around.

I’ve decided I’m going to make The Confederacy of Heaven available for free.  While it would be nice making a living from writing, it would also be a lot less fun.  What I really love getting out of my e-noveling hobby is feedback.  Please, feed back!  Tell me what you thought of the book (and this blog, too).  Tell me if you hated it.  And then go tell all your friends about it.

Book Covers!

I have a newfound respect for graphic designers. You probably don’t want to guess how many hours it took wrestling around with Photoshop to get the colors of the circly things in the background just right. These people must put so much time and effort into every cover that hits bookstore shelves.

Anyway, my efforts do look homemade, but I’m quite happy with how they came out. That lady in blue there is Nasan, by the way, heroine of the upcoming Confederacy. I got to bust out the old watercolor pencils for her. I used to draw a lot when I was a teenager but quit when the writing thing took off. Maybe it’s time to pick it back up.