In Which I Acquire Two Shiny New Things
Last week, I acquired two shiny new things. The first was a shiny new camera. I've never owned a camera before (no, not even one in a mobile phone, because I've never owned a mobile phone, either), so this has been a very exciting and time-consuming experience for me (hence the lack of blogging). Oh, the wonders of modern technology. This camera can do anything – it even has a MAGIC shooting mode. Unfortunately, I am a Muggle, so most of the magic has eluded me. This is particularly disappointing because one of the MAGIC modes can cause objects to sparkle. This immediately made me want to go around taking pictures of people, then showing them the photos and saying, 'LOOK! You're a sparkly vampire!', but so far, the only thing I've managed to turn into sparkles is a picture frame. However, I will persist. I actually bought the camera so I could take photos of the setting of my next book (which is set in Sydney, where I live), so those photos may appear on this blog in the near future. Or not, depending on how my photography skills develop.
The other shiny new thing I acquired was the Uncorrected Bound Proof (or ARC, if you're American) of my new book, The FitzOsbornes at War, which looks like this:
Click on the image to see the cover more clearly
Pretty, huh? I tried to make it sparkle, but all that happened was that a red splodge with an uncanny resemblance to a lobster claw appeared on Sophie's frock. (Oh, camera, sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.) Here's a photo of the spines of all three Montmaray books, so you can see how enormous the third book is:
Click on the image to see the covers more clearly
Actually, it doesn't look much bigger than the second book, but it really is – it's more than five hundred pages. Massive. My next book's going to be a lot shorter.
Here, have a photo of a rainbow lorikeet:
