I am reliably informed that the ebook version of Abomination will be going out to backers on June 30 - that's less than three weeks away, and a full month ahead of the print publication date! GET EXCITED Y'ALL
I am reliably informed that the ebook version of Abomination will be going out to backers on June 30 - that's less than three weeks away, and a full month ahead of the print publication date! GET EXCITED Y'ALL
Really excited, just found out Abomination is going to be an official selection of the Science Fiction Book Club!
We're so close now to this book being in your hands! This week we're approving the final the internal layout of the internal pages (fun fact: it clocks in at 341 pages) as well as the covers of the hardback and paperback editions. So I'm excited to be able to share with you now the final cover design, complete with a lovely endorsement from the great Hugh Howey! This image also includes the front inside flap. Check it out!
Well this is a very nice start to the week! Abomination has received a starred review in the new issue of Publishers Weekly, which I'm told is a big deal! Click the link below to read the review:
Very cool update for you all today! First some news:
The book is now in the final stages of copy-edit approval, which means we almost have a final manuscript ready for publication. We're also finalizing the covers for hardback and paperback editions, and we just got an amazing review blurb from the estimable Hugh Howey, author of WOOL, which will be going on our front cover. We expect the ebook version to be available very soon and that will be going out to all of you in advance of you receiving the print edition.
NOW. The cool stuff. When I was working on Star Wars one of the great privileges was the opportunity to work with the incredibly talented team at Industrial Light & Magic. Recently I asked one of their concept artists, Karl Lindberg, if he'd be interested in doing a few illustrations to help us visualize the world of Abomination. He's doing several illustrations for us, and I'm pleased to exclusively share the first piece of Karl's art with you here and now! Check out this piece, it's an image of our hero Wulfric, along with our OTHER hero (you haven't met her yet) and a third character that I'll call simply, "The Beast."
Inspired by Karl's amazing work, we've decided to make and give away exclusive art prints of his illustrations along with copies of the book to anyone who creates their own Abomination "fan art" as well as pre-ordering a physical copy of the book via Inkshares. Though the book isn't out yet, there's plenty of cool stuff in the first three chapters available on the site to inspire you. All of our Grand Patrons will be receiving the art prints with their copies of the book automatically!
Submit your Abomination art to me via Twitter @garywhitta with the hashtag #abominationart. I'll RT the best ones we receive! This will be fun!
SIGNED COPIES ALERT - WE ARE NOW AT DEFCON 2
As of this writing, only 50 signed first edition hardcover copies of Abomination remain! Once that counter hits 2000, no more signy-signy! Tell your friends! Tell everyone!
BACKERS! We have what we think are the three finalists for the cover! Take a look at these and see what you think. Two of them (the forests) you'll have seen versions of before, the third (what I lovingly call "night beetle") is a new variant of the beetle cover we had in an earlier round. I really liked the beetle image (when you read the book you'll see why the beetle is an important piece of iconography in the story) but also loved the creepy/spooky night imagery of the forests so I asked Jason to combine the two and this is what he came up with.
Whichever one we pick there will still be some tweaking to do, but the time has come to pick one and run with it! So let us know what you think, your opinion will help us make a final decision!
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And here's all three next to one another:
We'll have a new round of covers to look at very soon, and from this latest batch we hope to make our final choice - with your help of course.
In the meantime, some helpful advice:
Hello reading people!
I have some more covers for you to look at and comment on! To those of you who pointed out that the wax seal on the earlier "beetle" cover made it look too much like The Secret - THANKS A LOT I CAN NOW NEVER UNSEE THAT. So the wax seal is GONE but the beetle concept remains in contention because I like it. You'll see the latest version of that here. I also asked Jason to work up some more variations on the "creepy forest" concept, which you'll see here. I really like the idea of a cover that is vague and atmospheric and suggestive of a general mood rather than showing anything too specific. As always let me know what you think!
