Grand Central Arena -- Publication Update

[seawasp]

On the Good News/Bad News side. The bad news is that GCA won't be coming out in hardcover; this isn't as bad news as it might sound, however; apparently the HC market (at least for anyone not a very big author already) is getting HAMMERED currently (Eric says it's even affecting sales of his 1632 books).

Good news: Baen intends to be doing some pushing of the title!

Even more good news: Do a search for Grand Central Arena and you'll find it at Amazon.com -- with an image of the extremely cool cover!

Comments

[redrose999.livejournal.com]

Missed you this morning luv.

[seawasp]

Letting you sleep!

[redrose999.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

[condorfan.livejournal.com]

Coolness! $7.99 is a lot more affordable price, therefore, more people will be able to afford it (rather than, what's the usual HC price now? $27 and up?)

Tell Amazon they need to update your bio; it doesn't mention Victoria. ~:)

[the-blue-fenix.livejournal.com]

Yay you. I look forward to reading it.

[rasmusb.livejournal.com]

Congrats! I'll push it as much as I can from up here in the (not so) frozen North. :)

[cordova829.livejournal.com]

Nice! Glad to see everything coming along.

And don't worry about the HC. Michael Z. Williamson's "Freehold" was never in HC and it still sells extremely well.

[keithmm.livejournal.com]

Dammit! That's the one I wanted to do!

(Goes look for a puppy to kick. Cobra Commander had the right idea.)

[shana.livejournal.com]

Your images are extremely cool.

[seawasp]

I would not mind at all seeing your take on that scene -- especially since that cover is somewhat impressionistic, not the actual scene (though it is beautiful and gets the spirit across)

[keithmm.livejournal.com]

Well, to be honest it was sort of predictable that would be the one a cover artist would go for and, no insults meant for the publisher, it is a scene that you'd expect on a Baen book. When you said the picture was up, I'll admit I was expecting to see it; the only other one that sprang to mind would be the firefight in the forest.

...hmmm...

[seawasp]

Actually we discussed several covers for it, all of which seemed to appeal. The firefight in the forest wouldn't be my second choice; I'd say "DuQuesne's Victory", either his first or second stage of victory (first one when he trashes Maizas' troopers in five seconds, the second where he destroys Blessing of Fire) would be more obvious Baen covers. The second even has an Exploding Spaceship.

Or a Pure Exploitation Cover with Ariane and Gabrielle in the foreground (in Dirty-Pair like outfits, with guns) and DuQuesne behind them (shirtless, with a couple of BFGs, one in each hand), and some details of the Arena or interesting characters therefrome in the background.

[keithmm.livejournal.com]

By the way, nice avatar.

[seawasp]

Like it? Some guy voluntarily did these models for me. You oughtta talk to him sometime!

[keithmm.livejournal.com]

I don't know. Apparently he's a real jerkass at times.

[seawasp]

Well, you know, temperamental artists and all that. You have to humor them. :)

[midnightlurker.livejournal.com]

I'll be buying at least two copies, one to press on a friend. :)

[seawasp]

Only 15,998 to go!

[technocracygirl.livejournal.com]

Mazel tov! It looks fabulous; I am definitely psyched to buy it! (And push it on unsuspecting friends, of course.)

Just an FYI, but you might want to let whomever deals with Amazon's "Product Descriptions" that there are a couple of misspellings and formatting issues in there.

Squee!

[kayshapero]

Colorful cover! How traditional of the Product Description author - after the first reference, the lone female is referenced by her first name, and the males by their last. :)

[seawasp]

I wrote the blurb/description. They might have done some slight editing, but I think that's basically my writing there.

[robert-marrion.livejournal.com]

And it will be available through amazon.co.uk :))
I've put it on my wish list.