{"id":359,"date":"2009-08-08T11:33:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T17:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=359"},"modified":"2009-08-08T11:33:56","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T17:33:56","slug":"original-new-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"Original new covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baen Books will re-issue the original three books with <em>new covers<\/em> to coordinate with the Del Rey release of <em>Oath of Fealty<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And let me say right now that this is a very generous (and all too rare) example of cooperation by a former publisher.\u00a0\u00a0 Three cheers for Baen, not only for publishing these books when I was a raw unknown newbie, but for keeping them in print, and for agreeing to repackage them in 2010.\u00a0 Hip, hip, hooray! (x 3)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And not only that, but they hired a terrific artist for the job:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toddlockwood.com\/\">Todd Lockwood<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday the artist contacted me for some background information (since he won&#8217;t have time to read all three of them before he starts working on the cover design for <em>Sheepfarmer&#8217;s Daughter<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m delighted with Baen&#8217;s choice (who wouldn&#8217;t be???) and am sure that what Todd comes up with will be really, really good.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile (blush!\u00a0 Forgot to mention this earlier in the week; I was fixated on the problem chapter and a few other things) Orbit UK have shown me the new\u00a0 cover their people designed for the UK publication of the one-volume <em>Deed of Paksenarrion<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 I found it intriguing and striking.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8211;two publishers to cheer for, and two artists and I hope you all like the various covers as they come out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baen Books will re-issue the original three books with new covers to coordinate with the Del Rey release of Oath of Fealty.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And let me say right now that this is a very generous (and all too rare) example of cooperation by a former publisher.\u00a0\u00a0 Three cheers for Baen, not only for publishing these books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,38],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artwork","category-marketing","tag-artwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}