Reader (Show me, don't tell me) asked Sebastian Nothwell:

Take Me Like A Sailor (the images this title conjures. . .), has two different covers. Why's that? I love 'em both -now I've to 'eenie, meenie, mynnie. . . to pick one

Sebastian Nothwell So glad you like the variant covers! The short story is: everything that could've gone wrong with the cover, did. The lack of cover even pushed the release date for the book back an entire month!

Fortunately the artist was super cool about it and let me use her in-progress work as promotional material. Just got the final painting yesterday, so we should have a real, actual, final cover by the end of the week! And with the hi-res final painting file, we'll finally have a print-ready cover, which means the print edition will be coming soon!

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