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Drace (dracenines) | 7970 comments The paperback edition of Sefira and Other Betrayals is using an outdated version of the cover art, presumably from pre-release.

Actual cover on Amazon


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Javier (palchetti) | 31727 comments ACE added: Sefira and Other Betrayals by John Langan


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Drace (dracenines) | 7970 comments It's not an alternate cover edition, though. The edition I linked just has the wrong cover art. Creating a new edition is superfluous.


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rivka | 45177 comments Mod
Duplicate request has been removed. To avoid confusion, please only post requests once. If a day or two have gone by with no reply, it's fine to bump your request up by responding to your own thread.

Responses on the same issue should go in the same thread.


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Drace (dracenines) | 7970 comments rivka wrote: "Duplicate request has been removed. To avoid confusion, please only post requests once. If a day or two have gone by with no reply, it's fine to bump your request up by responding to your own threa..."

I thought that making a new thread would be for the best since the request has shifted from "please fix the cover art" to "since a new edition with incorrect information was created instead of the cover art being fixed, could somebody please combine the two." My mistake.

Anyways, now that the topic of the request has shifted, can somebody please combine the two editions? I don't think this necessarily counts as a bump since I'm making an entirely new request, but if I'm wrong, my mistake.

Sefira and Other Betrayals This is the original edition. It has the wrong cover art and is missing the ISBN number, but it has the right date published.
Sefira and Other Betrayals This is the newly created edition. It has the right cover art and ISBN number, but the wrong date. The proper date is April 20, 2019.
Here's the Amazon page with the proper cover art if needed.


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Suzi | 8661 comments The first one you listed was the original cover.

The second one you listed with the correct ISBN is an Alternate Cover Edition with the new cover.

I have indicated this in the description.


message 7: by Drace (last edited Apr 14, 2021 05:27AM) (new) - added it

Drace (dracenines) | 7970 comments Suzi wrote: "The first one you listed was the original cover.

The second one you listed with the correct ISBN is an Alternate Cover Edition with the new cover.

I have indicated this in the description."


I am absolutely positive that the cover of the first one I listed was never actually used and is only a placeholder image from before the typography on the finalized version of the cover was finished. Maybe there were some ARCs that used the older version of the cover art, but as someone who owns a first edition paperback copy, I can confirm it does not have that cover art. All editions of the book use the cover art linked in the second one, and the first one's cover is not on any paperback, Kindle, e-book, or limited edition hardcover copy of the book.

With all that said, could you please update the second one I linked to have the proper release date? It's still marked as 2021 instead of April 20, 2019.


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Drace (dracenines) | 7970 comments Bumping once more, if somebody could please fix the date published issue it would be greatly appreciated.


message 9: by rivka, Former Moderator (new)

rivka | 45177 comments Mod
Duplicate request has been removed. To avoid confusion, please only post requests once. If a day or two have gone by with no reply, it's fine to bump your request up by responding to your own thread.

The date was set as is our usual default for an Alternate Cover Edition, to the current year and month. However, since you have specified that this cover was released in April 2019, I have set the edition's date accordingly.


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Drace (dracenines) | 7970 comments rivka wrote: "Duplicate request has been removed. To avoid confusion, please only post requests once. If a day or two have gone by with no reply, it's fine to bump your request up by responding to your own threa..."

I figured that I should make a new thread since the topic had moved from a cover issue to something else. Apologies.

Since the specific date of publication is April 20, 2019, could you please add the date? It looks like it has the month and year but not the date.


message 11: by rivka, Former Moderator (new)

rivka | 45177 comments Mod
It remains unclear to me if this cover was changed pre-publication or shortly thereafter.


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Drace (dracenines) | 7970 comments rivka wrote: "It remains unclear to me if this cover was changed pre-publication or shortly thereafter."

Sorry for being unaware, but does the cover changing have something to do with the date? All of the acceptable book data source websites list this specific edition as April 20, 2019, so I figured that was enough.


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Drace (dracenines) | 7970 comments Bumping this again to request a slight update to the release date on this edition: Sefira and Other Betrayals. It says April 2019, but specifically it was published April 20, 2019.


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Scott | 12024 comments done


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