"GETTING THERE IS HALF THE FUN"

GETTING THERE IS HALF THE FUN

This is the cover of the Dutch edition of Chanda's Wars, out this January from Van Goor. I've included it here because I'm currently in the Amsterdam airport. I left home June 4 at 2:00 p.m., arrived here at 7:00 a.m. June 5, and am waiting for a fourteen-hour flight at 10:30 that'll get me into my hotel in Jo'burg by the wee hours of June 6. (I love the cover it mixes cultures of dream and reality; how the landscape suggests the bush and danger, and the red, bloo...