Ooh, pretty

[dianeduane]

Tags: Star Trek, Romulans, Rihannsu, Bloodwing, Ael, Diane Duane, whoopee,

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[metahacker.livejournal.com]

My first thought was "Wow, those are both really pretty..." Then I saw your post title. :)

[wetdryvac.livejournal.com]

Wow. The right-hand one particularly.

...I need better words for this wow.

[mikailborg.livejournal.com]

That is most pleasingly excellent :)

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

Uhh..gu...bwa...*droooooools*

Must. Have.

When is the release date, DD, do you know?

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

Ah, never mind, I didn't realise the pics linked to that helpful information. Can't wait!

*bounces all around happily*

[dewline.livejournal.com]

That lettering on the Rihannsu ominbus cover would be the inscription of Ael's house-pennant, wouldn't it?

I've long wondered...

[dduane.livejournal.com]

Yep. Marco asked me to do it for them. My little contribution. :)

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Be careful. That way lies designing whole alphabets and suchlike. You may find yourself wholly diverted by this sort of work; I've been indulging in such as a hobby myself with the help of version 4 of this one particular bit of software (http://high-logic.com/fontcreator.html). Not quite as dangerous as starship engineering or wizardry, but it has its own hazards! :-)

[fiveforsilver]

Wow. You're right. Those are extremely pretty.

[ursulav.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[inklesspen.livejournal.com]

Ooh, those both look excellent. Am I correct, though, in reading that the Rihannsu anthology doesn't include Empty Chair? I know they're coming out at the same time and stuff, but still, that complicates things when you want to hand a friend the series. You can't just hand them the one book.

What the heck, I'm buying them both anyway.

[uitlander]

Rihannsu is particularly striking. Keep this up and I may actually read one of your books rather than just listen to people telling me how good they are!

[dduane.livejournal.com]

Oh, no argument about the handsomeness of these covers. Yet covers can be so equivocal as a guide to contents. As an example, look at the cover on the left on this page (http://www.owlsprings.com/OldDoorIntoFireCovers.html) -- the original cover attached to my first novel. Truly horrific, a genuine "Thalidomide cover." Yet the print inside it got me nominated two years running for the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer in the field. And as far as I can tell, it got those nominations due to people saying again and again, "Ignore the cover, read the book!"

...Now I'm not saying the Rihannsu books aren't worth reading. Far from it. I'm just saying that maybe you should pay more attention to your friends and less attention to the frontage. ;)

(BTW: nice Clanger.) :)

[uitlander]

'tis a truly iconic representation of the pubescent boys only demographic many publishers seem determined to attract :). Just out of interest, do you get any rights of veto/choice where covers are concerned, or are you surprised each time with the publisher's 'tasteful selection'?

I will get around to your books, honest (I did promise you this 2 years ago).

I am too fond of Clangers, particularly the one made out of a bright pink 'disco sock' by a friends' mum 20 years ago, which still inhabits my bookshelves.

[dduane.livejournal.com]

If you're lucky, your publisher will at least listen to your suggestions. But they're under no compulsion to do so. And absolutely not when you're a first-time novelist.

I'm lucky to have had some input on the new editions of the YW books, and on the (later) Trek as well: it's been fun to be included in the process. But this kind of inclusion is the exception rather than the rule. Only the very highest-paid writers get "cover veto"...and even then, if you're smart, you defer to the knowledge of the art director and the marketing people.

D'Oh!

[swestrup]

All this time I've been thinking of you as a Startrek Novelist. I somehow hadn't realized that you had written "Door into Fire" and its sequals. I really loved that series and I still recommend it to friends.

Re: D'Oh!

[dduane.livejournal.com]

(grin) I've done a few other things as well. For details:

http://www.youngwizards.com/DianeDuaneBibliography.html

[cjmr.livejournal.com]

I have to say that I much prefer the psychedelic blue cover to the other one. But my favorite cover for that novel is the Tor one with Herewiss riding across the field on Sunspark.

BTW, we've never been able to agree on how to pronounce that. Is is heer-wiss or hair-wiss or hair-a-wiss? (Darn it! I can't make a schwa!)

[dduane.livejournal.com]

It's either "here", as in "come over here", or "hair" as in "bad hair day", depending on which of two main theories of the pronunciation of Anglo-Saxon you subscribe to. I usually use "here", myself.

(Re the Tor cover: yeah, I like that one too. Usually referred to around here as the "Blazing Saddles cover". :)

[cjmr.livejournal.com]

Mind you Segnbora is a bit of a mouthful, too. I've never known if I pronounce that properly. Does that denote a nasalized 'b'? (Obviously we need an Anglo-Saxon dictionary/grammar at our house. I did not take the grad-level class in Old English/Saxon my last semester in college when I was taking all the classes that had ever looked intriguing to me (because I needed 1 more course to graduate but a full load to keep my scholarship), but apparently I should have.)

[bodhibird.livejournal.com]

*bounce bounce bounce bounce*

It will be such a pleasure to replace my poor, beat-up copies of My Enemy, My Ally and The Romulan Way with that pretty omnibus volume!

It will be an even greater pleasure to get the end of Ael's and Jim's great saga (and perhaps to find out why Ael laughs every time she says "Jim"). As far as I'm concerned, the Rihanssu are canon, and those nicely costumed but odd people in Nemesis are just somebody's Bad Idea.

[bodhibird.livejournal.com]

And why do I keep misspelling Rihannsu...?

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

Ooh, shiny.

Going to have these up on your ebay site for autographs?

[dduane.livejournal.com]

I'd guess so. Must talk to Marco about some extra copies.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yes, definitely looking forward to getting both of these! I've always considered My Enemy, My Ally to be THE quintessential ClassicTrek story, the one I would have most dearly loved to see made into a movie. Sadly, now that it could be done (since CGI could give us great alien characters like Mr. Athende), it can't be done because we've lost some of the crew.

Whine

[khavrinen.livejournal.com]

December?!

But I want it now!

[caitlin.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow... very lovely covers, and yay that they're both going to be in print soon! (okay, so December isn't SOON-soon, but it could be worse!=) ) My first reaction to reading all the information about them = "OH COOL!"

I already own all of the books in the omnibus, but have enjoyed them so much I will definitely buy the omnibus so that I can take ONE volume with me on vacation instead of four. =)

C.

[datalore.livejournal.com]

I fell in love with your writing with your Star Trek books, then found the Young Wizards series, and much later the Door into Fire series (probably my favorite). I stopped reading the Trek books when they started putting out four per month, but I still scan the Trek shelves for your name. I look forward to these!