11.17.11My urban fantasy series The Black Sun’s Daughter sold to Orbit in the UK a while back, and as has become traditional with Orbit, they’re doing a great job with them. Take a look at the new UK covers.
For the players at home, the landscapes at the bottom are Denver, New Orleans, Chicago, and Taos.
Now that I can see the covers on the big screen on the home computer they are really nice. And she doesn’t look like she’s need a sandwich as badly as the girl on the American covers. Very nice.
Yeah, and they did a great job matching the landscape to the locale. It does leave me wondering what the cultural differences are between the US and the UK, and how the differences play out in this kind of marketing.
im trying to win them at http://darkfaerietales.com/giveaway-the-black-suns-daughter-series-by-m-l-n-hanover.html THE ENTIRE SET~~~~
And I wish you the best of luck.
I think they’re pretty fun little books. Dark, that third one.
ty! also found this one too
http://sosaloha.blogspot.com/2011/11/black-friday-special-killing-rites-by.html
well didnt win either, hopefully in a few months, ill be able to get them
I picked up the first book when I visited New York a few years ago and since then have had to have them sent over from the US to the UK as I love the stories. So hopefully the UK will now catch up to the US and I can get the next book over here when it comes out – assuming there will be a fifth and more?
I’m under contract for the fifth — Graveyard Child — this year. After that, we are (as always) at the mercy of the market forces.
I’m very much looking forward to Graveyard Child, though. It’s where we address the contradiction that 1) leaving Jayne a huge empire without ever telling her about it is very short-sighted, and 2) Eric was not short-sighted.
Hey Daniel – I’m reading through Vicious Grace right now, and thought this would be as good a spot as any to ask you a related question.
As I’ve read Black Sun’s Daughter, I’ve really enjoyed doing google searches of buildings and people and ideas, and seeing how intertwined and well-researched this whole story is. Since you’re often writing about places I haven’t seen, being able to look at pictures of streetscapes in New Orleans or visit webpages of voodoo museums has been a fun ‘added value’ to the reading experience.
I also like trying to guess before I research whether a building or institution or person or disease is ‘real’ or not. And you completely fooled me with Grace Memorial. All the detail you put into describing its history, the architects, the Truman connection… I was sure it was a real hospital. Well done, sir.
That being said, is there a hospital that inspired Grace more than any other? When I try to look up Red brick hospitals, I get nothing in Chicago, but the New York Cancer hospital seems to fit the description, even if it was built decades earlier. The Duchussois Center seems to be the closest of the buildings associated with the University of Chicago, but other then a cathedral feel, it doesn’t match with the description of Grace that well… Or was Grace built entirely out of whole cloth?
Thanks for writing a series that has stopped me from instantly dismissing all urban fantasy. My female friends are grateful to you.
I’m pleased to have kept you from instantly dismissing urban fantasy.
Grace Memorial really had a couple places that it started from. First off, from movies, Kingdom Hospital (the Lars von Trier version). That was the first time I really started thinking about hospitals as essentially creepy. They’re the places we come into the world and go out of it. If there was going to be someplace haunted, it would pretty much be a hospital.
Then the Darling Wife worked in a hospital, as do several other members of her family (different hospitals), and they’re *all* built like mazes. The one the Darling Wife worked in had things like stairways that skipped floors and offices couldn’t be reached without going through high-security areas unrelated to them. It was one of those Tim Powers things where you think “What’s the magical significance of building a hospital as a maze? Are you trying to keep something out or keep something in?”
After that, I just started making it up.
Hi! Ive been searching for the next book in this series and I just now saw this post and the reference to Graveyard Child. Do you have a release date or know a round about yet? Im so excited because I love this series!! Thanks
I also am hoping to know more about Graveyard Child! I just finished the first four, after buying at a used book store on impulse. They’re great! but really left me hanging in Killing Rites… I am SUPER DUPER excited to find out anything!
How about a cover?
Yay!!! Plus I got to check out all the other comments that answer questions I’ve had…
Thanks a bunch!