CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT cover release!

[seanan_mcguire]

Psst. C'mere.

So it's no secret that I love the covers DAW gives me, and that showing them off is one of my true pure joys in life. Chris McGrath has been designing Toby covers for seven books now, and he's amazing. Like, seriously amazing. Want proof?

Go ahead. Take a peek.

Behold the pretty:



OH MY GOD YOU GUYS OH MY GOD IT'S THE COVER TO CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT AND IT'S GORGEOUS!

Toby is badass and there are books and she looks like she's about to cut somebody and and and I'M SO HAPPY!!!!

What do you think?

Comments

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Oh, right, sorry - had it backwards.

[ironed_orchid]

TOBY BOOKS KNIVES FTW

The pull quote from Felicia Day rocks pretty hard, too.

[windtear.livejournal.com]

I... uh, thought it was a chalice. Of the ceremonial, oh-god-please-don't-let-me-mess-this-bloody-ritual-up-and-blow-us-all-sky-high variety.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Me, too.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

It's amazing what knowing the series does for an artist.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I know right?!

So happy.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I wish we didn't have to word it that way, but it's true: a non-sexualized, non-juvenilized female character has only the male iconography to draw from.

[beasting-quest.livejournal.com]

It would make a lot more sense, admittedly. The way my brain works just lends itself much more to seeing a fish...

[beasting-quest.livejournal.com]

Fish spotters unite!

[princesselwen.livejournal.com]

Nice cover. It has a sort of dark and mysterious feeling to it, rather forbidding. I also like her pose. It doesn't really look like she's posing, if you understand. It's like the artist just caught her in action. Your books get great covers.

[dragonsblog.livejournal.com]

You have a blurb from Felicia Day? Rock! And books on a book? That library would be cool to explore, but Toby has those knives out, so maybe I should bring backup.

[michael scheuerman (from livejournal.com)]

This cover is competing very strongly with One Salt Sea for my best covers list.

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

Seems to me she should be holding the knife the other way -- if you cut down, you often just skitter off ribs. If you cut up, you go in under the ribs, which is of course the best way to a man's heart. :)

'course, she might just be prying a desk drawer open...

(Oh! Right! I absolutely love the cover, which has a great palate and an interesting background and avoids nearly every fantasy cover cliche, most especially that of the heroine being posed for the male gaze.)

[lit-inclined.livejournal.com]

Dare I say it but is Toby in "The Library" that we heard about in "Ashes of Honor"....hmmm!!! I wonder [if that is where she is] if she will learn more about the Dochas Sidhe. I can't wait for this book I really can't.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I love my covers so.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Good plan.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Aw, yay. :)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I hope you'll like it!