(I really wanted to write “anarchy for the UK” in the title there.) And here’s the cover for the edition being published in the UK by Headline Publishing Company.
Category Archive: Moth and Spark production
Monday September 2, 2013 — 8:28 AM
I found out last Friday that the UK rights have been acquired by Headline Publishing Group (a division of Hachette). They will be publishing at the same time, though likely with a different cover, which is still in the works. Here’s a link to their site. It’s very exciting!
http://www.hachette.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781472214843
Map
My friend Rachel Smith drew an amazing map to go with the book. Here is the final version:
Live Action Shots
Went out with the camera today to get some action pictures of M&S:
What’s it about, anyway?
Someone asked me this, and I was prepared to copy the catalog blurb when it became available as an answer, but when the catalog blurb did become available a few days later I realized how much actually got left out. But, rather than a hokey summary, I am going to provide a non-comprehensive list …
The cover
The cover. Wow.
Updates
Publication Date: February 20, 2014. Also, there will be an audio book and I get to help choose the narrator. I also created an author facebook page and will link to this blog.
American vs. British English
A win for the Anglophiles. I get to keep “grey” instead of suffering “gray.” I’ve spelled it that way since I was 9! Everything else is properly American.
Layouts
Got the draft layouts today. With a little tweaking (I removed a border and re-sized the drawing a bit smaller), here is what I think the main title page is going to look like: