Eye Candy

[rolanni]

This just in from Madame the Editor.

-- art by David Mattingly

This is the eighteenth novel detailing the adventures of Clan Korval and other residents of the Liaden Universe®.

The hardcover will be in bookstores in June 2015.  For those who treasure a passion for eArcs, count backward four months from June for your probable release date.  No word yet on whether there will be an audiobook edition.

More news as it becomes available.

Comments

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

Outstanding! And I suppose the mass market paperback is a year from the hardcover, mumble, mumble. Only for you two will I buy an eBook (I hate them) and then the mm paperback when it finally comes out ;)

eBooks for the Elderly

[aska-kettlingur.livejournal.com]

I love the feel of a good hardcover. I used to purchase the hardcover when it came out and then would also buy the mm paperback a year later to take with me. However, as my advanced age and general decrepitude catch up with me, I find it's difficult to hold the heavy hardcovers and difficult to read the small print on the mm paperbacks.

With a Nook reader, I can adjust the size of the type on the screen to match the particular day's eyesight. For some reason, I have some days that are better than others.

The other benefit of an eBook is that I can carry a complete library of my favorite books in something the size and weight of a paperback. If I am suddenly struck with the desire to re-read any or all of Sharon's and Steve's books (and I am often suddenly struck thus), I have them all with me. Also, it is useful to have an electronic version of a book to do a quick text search and find a favorite scene or answer a nagging question.

I guess I could always read an eBook while sniffing a hardcover.

Re: eBooks for the Elderly

[attilathepbnun.livejournal.com]

It's too bad they haven't yet *bottled* that smell, isn't it?

Re: eBooks for the Elderly

[aska-kettlingur.livejournal.com]

If they bottled the book smell, I could dab a bit behind each ear and in my cleavage. I'd be the most sought-after girl at the SF convention.

Re: eBooks for the Elderly

[attilathepbnun.livejournal.com]

You mean you aren't already? *is astonished*

Re: eBooks for the Elderly

[gareth griffiths (from livejournal.com)]

For me the e-reader wins these days - same issue that I can choose the font size. I've found a lot of publishers seems to have switched to a more stylish smaller font with larger line spacing which I find much harder to read - especially in the mass market paperbacks.

[elbales]

There may have been Kermitflailing. So looking forward to this one!

[otterb.livejournal.com]

I'm another looking forward to this.

Eighteenth book. Wow. I had to go look up the list. It's not that I think you'd be mistaken about that sort of thing, but ... it seemed like a lot. Sure enough, there are seventeen previous ones, and I've read them all, most of them more than once, and if my house was an orderly place they'd all be on a shelf together because I know I own them all (but my house is not an orderly place).

[drammar.livejournal.com]

Extreme excitement! When a book by an author(s) I love is graced by cover from such a talented artist I'm always thrilled. I like looking at the Liaden Universe through David Mattingly's eyes. I guess because his vision seems to be in sync with the pictures my mind has drawn.

Selfishly asking: Have you heard whether or not he's going to offer limited edition prints of this one?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Selfishly asking: Have you heard whether or not he's going to offer limited edition prints of this one?

I just wrote to David and asked. Will report back.

Prints

[doccolt.livejournal.com]

I think he will. I asked him for the #2 Print as soon as I found out he was doing the Cover;-}
Sam

[catherine ives (from livejournal.com)]

18th Liaden book. Awesome! Elections...not so much. I live in a one party state: UT. So not very interesting results.

thanks for the cat spam. I love the cat spam. Hope that string decided to work at some point.

Also hope the goopy snow can be coped with ok.

No cat?

[julian satchell (from livejournal.com)]

Many of the covers have a cat visible somewhere. Am I blind, or is this one an exception?

Re: No cat?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

No cat in his right mind would be anywhere near that alley, I'm thinking.