Knot of Shadows garners starred review in Publishers Weekly
This is for the upcoming Subterranean Press limited signed hardcover edition. Nice words!
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781...
Due out the end of January... dear lordy, is it almost
2023 already...?
Ta, L.
added: The SubPress pre-order page is here:
https://subterraneanpress.com/knot-of...
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781...
Due out the end of January... dear lordy, is it almost
2023 already...?
Ta, L.
added: The SubPress pre-order page is here:
https://subterraneanpress.com/knot-of...
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JuaSaysHi wrote: "Wow, what a great review! Very enticing, making me even more eager for the book than I already was....oh golly, I just reviewed a review (quickly changes the subject). Now I understand your conund..."
The fans here helped with that title. It was a conundrum at the time.
Note that the lovely SubPress signed hardcover is a collector's edition, and priced accordingly. For an insta-cheap reading copy, the e-version has been out for some time at our usual vendors: Kindle, Nook, Apple Books, and Kobo.
Ta, L.
Is the preorder already sold out? I thought I had seen it on the Subterranean Press site a week or two ago. Checking now, it is gone ... any insights??
Emily wrote: "Is the preorder already sold out? I thought I had seen it on the Subterranean Press site a week or two ago. Checking now, it is gone ... any insights??"None from me. My search doesn't find it either. Usually, if something is sold out the page still stays up for a while, but with an "out of print" or "out of stock" notation. Check the site again from time to time to see if this is a temporary glitch. If it doesn't show in a few days, I can ping an inquiry through back channels.
Ta, L.
I certainly thought this was one of the better entries in the series. Especially clever, with a new kind of problem to solve and interesting new characters. An unusual mystery that required extra creativity.And if you go down that set of reviews a few pages, you will also find the PW review for *The Assassins of Thasalon*.
Lois wrote: "Emily wrote: "Is the preorder already sold out? I thought I had seen it on the Subterranean Press site a week or two ago. Checking now, it is gone ... any insights??"None from me. My search doesn..."
I pinged; the missing pre-order page was an inadvertent victim of a website update. It is restored now.
I can't put the link in the comments, but I'll add it above in the post proper.
Ta, L.
The larger format of the preorder page let me see the cover art more clearly. I was trying to figure out what sort of animal Penric is holding. The black cat seems to indicate the scene is near the end, and that is the Father's cat, but the brown animal in Pen's arms? It can't be the very small rabbit, much too large and not rabbit like at all.
Having reread that segment of the story to check, I see the very small rabbit is described as rust brown, and I looked closely with rabbit in my mind, I suppose that is what is in the cover art, but having raised rabbits, that one still looks much too large to be the one described in the story, and that is certainly not how I would have carried a young rabbit. But everyone has their own vision of what a small young rabbit looks like. It is a striking illustration.
Jerri wrote: "Having reread that segment of the story to check, I see the very small rabbit is described as rust brown, and I looked closely with rabbit in my mind, I suppose that is what is in the cover art, bu..."Yes, too large, but when asking cover artists to go back and fool with art that's already finished and paid for, when they're trying to get started on their next commission, one must select which hill to die on very parsimoniously. In this case, it was getting the image lightened enough to see that Pen was carrying anything at all, and trying to lighten and gray-out his very blue shadowed robe so he didn't look like he'd suddenly joined the Daughter's Order.
Ta, L.
I see your point, Lois, and agree.And reading your comments and thinking about the story, by this point, wasn't Pen so filthy from his excursion through the sewers (almost Miles in Weatherman!) that he wasn't wearing his official robes at all, having taken them off when he went into the sewer, and not putting them back, I remember him washing himself and leaving most of his clothing outside his back door.
As I said before, a striking bit of cover art, but perhaps not the most true to the story. But compromises are necessary. And it doesn't really matter to me, as I purchase the eBooks and Audio versions and then buy the Baen compilations to donate to the library where I volunteer so they can be read by our patrons and hopefully I will convert more folks to reading your books. But I find these limited editions outside of my budget. However, I love cover art in general and always study it closely.
Wow, that is pretty expensive! I will have to wait and hope for another compilation in the future to add to my paper book collection. In the meantime, I guess I'm stuck with the e-book - but better than none at all!
Susan wrote: "Wow, that is pretty expensive! I will have to wait and hope for another compilation in the future to add to my paper book collection. In the meantime, I guess I'm stuck with the e-book - but better..."Yeah, sadly, SubPress went off their more affordable two-tier system ($25 regular unsigned/$45 signed leather) when Covid did a number on their library sales in 2020. They now are doing smaller print runs of more expensive editions, all signed. The retrenchment allowed them to survive, at least, but it's definitely collector's-market.
Ta, L.
...oh golly, I just reviewed a review (quickly changes the subject). Now I understand your conundrum over the title a bit better, and it looks even more like you settled on the perfect solution. *so excited*