flew in from Miami Beach BOAC, didn't get to bed last night

[truepenny]

Spent the weekend with my parents and their epileptic poodle.


Return home with boxen upon boxen of books, because it turns out I'm the only one who wants the Oz books and Asterix and Tintin and a whole bunch of other stuff. Also, my wedding dress, my high school and college diplomas, and a little cedar box that I turned the house upside down looking for, only to have my father find it in the one room in the house I hadn't looked in, because there was NO CONCEIVABLE WAY it could have ended up there. Let this be a lesson to you all.

My bound galleys were waiting for me when we got home, and it occurs to me that it might be clever of me, and pleasing for y'all, if I put up the cover blurb.

So if you want to know what Mélusine's about ...
Mélusine--a city of secrets and lies, pleasure and pain, magic and corruption--and destinies lost and found ...

Felix Harrowgate is a dashing, highly respected wizard. But his aristocratic peers don't know his dark past--how his abusive former master enslaved him, body and soul, and trained him to pass as a nobleman. Within the walls of the Mirador--Mélusine's citadel of power and wizardry--Felix believeed he was safe. He was wrong. Now, the horrors of his previous life have found him and threaten to destroy all that he has since become ...

Mildmay the Fox is used to being hunted. Raised as a kept-thief and trained as an assassin, he escaped his Keeper long ago and lives on his own as a cat burglar. But now he has been caught by a mysterious foreign wizard using a powerful calling charm. And yet the wizard was looking not for Mildmay--but for Felix Harrowgate ...

Thrown together by fate, the broken wizard Felix and the wanted killer Mildmay journey far from Mélusine through lands thick with strange magics and terrible demons of darkness. But is ithe shocking secret from their pasts, linking them inexorably together, that will either save them, or destroy them ...


I'd be in a flat spin, you know, but I'm just too tired.

Comments

[flangirl.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, congratulations! And I want to read that.... :)

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Blessed are the bookbuyers, for they shall ...

... run out of bookshelf space PDQ.

[marith.livejournal.com]

Sounds tasty. I'm buying it!

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Blessed, BLESSED, are the bookbuyers.

[mmarques.livejournal.com]

Sounds like fun! When is it coming out?

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

First week of August or thereabouts.

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

I already ordered it and I can't wait to read it. Sounds so very cool.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

And now I shall commence to fret about whether the book will live up to all this anticipation.

*g*

Thank you!

[pameladean]

Wheeeeeeeee!

P.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[vass]

Congratulations.

And yeah, I'll be buying it.

A friend of mine was just saying we needed to do more Amazon orders (a group of us recently clubbed together on an order, to save postage.)

[oursin.livejournal.com]

*Lusts for it*
Great news!

[morvoren.livejournal.com]

I'm absolutely broke right now, so alas, I cannot buy it. But, I will be adding this to my library's 'suggested purchase' list and will be buying it as soon as I can afford it. It sounds like a really neat book.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

And, yes, please, encourage your local library to buy it. Libraries are seraphic.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Blurbs always oversimplify and set my teeth on edge, I sometimes have a book for years and read it several times without reading the blurb. That one's actually pretty good of its kind.

And I'm looking forward to having it in a more useful format.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

As blurbs go, this one is actually refreshingly not inaccurate.

I have gotten really really lucky with the people doing the design work on the material object that is the book.

[opalturtle.livejournal.com]

Wow! Sounds great! It's been added to my wish list for when it comes out.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Hooray!

And I love your icon.

[opalturtle.livejournal.com]

It's art from Brian Jacques Redwall books. I snitched it. :D

You'd adore the moles in those books if you've never read them.

[oracne.livejournal.com]

Galleys!

I'd had my pre-order in for months....

[greenlight711.livejournal.com]

So glad Bear pointed me here. Sounds terrific. Consider me a new reader of yours!

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Thank you!