Waiting on Wednesday - Starflight by Melissa Landers

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine.  It highlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.  This week, my Waiting on Wednesday pick is (insert drumroll) ... Starflight by Melissa Lander.

Okay, the reasons I'm anticipating Starflight are many, but here are just two:

Firstly - there's some major coverly love going on.  Check it out - they've managed to make the space ship exhaust look like glitter (I think so, anyway).

Secondly - the blurb on the Goodreads giveaway page says: '"Firefly" meets "Overboard" in a romantic, new sci-fi adventure from Disney Hyperion!'  


Firefly meets Overboard?


Overboard is a really funny film, so that's great, but Firefly?  I have big, big love for Firefly and I was devastated when it was cancelled.


You know those playing cards the US military used to distribute when the Iraq invasion was going on?  They had pictures of the fifty-two most wanted Iraqis on them, and Saddam Hussein was the Ace of Spades.  If I had my own personalised 'Most Wanted' set of playing cards, Rupert Murdock, the man who cancelled Firefly, would be my Ace of Spades.  So when a book is billed as being a bit like Firefly, I'm naturally intrigued.

Starflight isn't released until next February (!), so looks like I'm going to be waiting a while!

What about you?  What are you waiting on?