This showed up unexpectedly the other day and I am a happy little camper. The wonderful Steve Stone cover translates beautifully to the mass market size (and the colors really pop on the shelf), and what paperbacks lack in durability and just plain cred, they make up for by being just plain fat.
It was also an unexpected treat to see the reviews put in the flyleaf. You tend to remember the harsh ones better than the positive ones, so seeing a bunch of really nice ones together makes me think that maybe I don’t just write good chair-levelers and doorstops after all.
The paperback contains an expanded Afterword and minor corrections from the hardcover edition. I’d like to express my thanks to my publisher’s typesetter, who did a wonderful job redoing the layout of my indulgent blank-verse section (p. 284 of the paperback, thank you veddy much) and general stylistic quirkiness.
AVALON BURNING, meanwhile, is going great guns. It’s very dark indeed and I’m loving it.