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So, the cover to The Sanctum of the Sphere: The Benevolence Archives, Vol. 2 is getting rrreal close to being done, to the point where my artist has given me permission to post this:

Pretty, innit? That’s by Yvonne Less, the same artist who created the awesome cover for Benevolence Archives 1. The main difference is that when she did the BA 1 cover she didn’t know she was doing it, and this cover was her making my ideas look way awesomer than they had any right to be.

This is just the ebook cover. I’ll post the whole thing when it’s done. I love what is happening on the back side so I’m enjoying the idea of getting to do two separate reveals. 🙂

You can’t pre-order the book just yet (ebook will be $4.95; paper price is still undetermined) but you can tell Goodreads you want to read it here.

So I spent money on two things at Staples tonight; one of them I’ll likely talk about sometime in the next couple of days, but no promises. The second one was this:

This is, quite obviously, not going to be its final resting place– for starters, I’m gonna frame it, and second, there’s no way it lives in front of my prized autographed Dave Dorman Hoth print. But I thought it thematically appropriate to put the two of them together for the picture. Plus the cats can’t get to it up there. 🙂

And holy god does that thing look outstanding printed. Have I singled out and bragged about the artist on this site yet? Her name is Yvonne Less, but she goes by Diverse Pixel, and you can find out more about her work here. She doesn’t know this yet, but she’s also doing the cover for the Benevolence Archives novel. I don’t even have a title for the damn book yet and I can’t wait to see her cover.

(About the shower curtains: they’re a baby proofing measure, designed to keep the boy from trying to climb the bookshelves while still allowing me to see all my books. There are twelve six-foot bookshelves in this room alone, so we had to come up with something.)