Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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  • Mood: ecstatic
  • Music: Glee, "Jessie's Girl."

Check it out! The cover for NEBELBANN!

I am absolutely delighted to announce the cover release for Nebelbann, the German edition of A Local Habitation. ("Nebelbann" means, roughly, "mist-spell" or "mist-ban." It's a really spiffy compound word, and I'm thrilled.) This is being released by Egmont, my German publisher, and the cover design was done by the artist who designed the cover of Winterfluch.

Behold the pretty:



It's so different from my US covers, and so pretty, that I honestly couldn't be happier. I'm really happy.

What do you think?
Tags: a local habitation, good things, other editions, toby daye
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archangelbeth

May 17 2010, 20:12:21 UTC 7 years ago

That's not Toby on the cover though, is it? (On the other hand, there are plenty of pretty-pretty people it can be, and that is a very nice cover.)

Congrats on the foreign language sales!

seanan_mcguire

May 17 2010, 20:16:12 UTC 7 years ago

Yes, that is Toby.

She's not ugly. She doesn't wear much makeup, as a rule, but she's not unfortunate-looking, and the coloring of that model is completely accurate.

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beccastareyes

May 17 2010, 21:00:16 UTC 7 years ago

I remember her eyes were light (the word 'colorless' comes to mind) and sufficiently exotic that normal looking human eyes were part of her glamor.

seanan_mcguire

May 18 2010, 14:47:31 UTC 7 years ago

They're a colorless sort of gray when she isn't wearing a human disguise. When she is, she usually turns them blue.

archangelbeth

May 17 2010, 21:36:18 UTC 7 years ago

I missed the blue eyes as well! Doh! Thought she was brown-eyed for some reason... (Maybe because the US covers don't really show eye color much?) And tending to look more grouchy. >_> It's the lack of snark in the expression that got me! *grin*

vixyish

May 17 2010, 20:22:31 UTC 7 years ago Edited:  May 17 2010, 20:25:12 UTC

I don't understand why you think it wouldn't be Toby?

Toby does have brown hair, and although she describes herself as more human-looking than a pureblood, she's still *fae*. In terms of the Tobyverse that still pretty much means "prettier than full-blooded humans". :)

(Edit:) I think people get fooled by Toby's perception of herself-- she's always comparing herself to the OMG-drop-dead purebloods, so *she* thinks she's nothing special in the looks department. But in that, as in a lot of things, she's not a reliable narrator. We humans wouldn't see her as plain-looking. (Neither do some purebloods. Ahem.)

lyssabard

May 17 2010, 20:50:14 UTC 7 years ago

Absolutely agree with this. Including how some purebloods would think differently.... :)

archangelbeth

May 17 2010, 21:37:17 UTC 7 years ago

*points upwards* It's the lack of snark/grouchiness in the expression that fooled me. *grin*

You're probably right, too, about her self-perception coloring how readers may think of her.