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Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote2010-09-26 09:41 am
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The cover art for the April book is out already! :DDD (Note: Highly spoilery for the ending of Changes, at least if you look at it closely. Do not click if you have not read that one yet!) Here is the large version of the cover art and this is the news post it comes from (which also has a listing of the short stories in Side Jobs). Comments will probably contain Changes spoilers, FYI.

*wants April NOW*

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[identity profile] ianthe-echo.livejournal.com 2010-09-26 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Me too.
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[personal profile] sholio 2010-09-26 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
*bounces*

[identity profile] gnine.livejournal.com 2010-09-26 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee, that really is ridiculously spoilerific if you haven't finished Changes, ne? ^__________^ HOMG, WANTS IT! NOW! IS IT APRIL YET?!?!?!?!
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[personal profile] sholio 2010-09-26 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, although at first glance I didn't realize what I was looking at, and then I looked closer and ZOMG GRAVESTONE! ("He died doing the right thing." Oh, Harry.)

April cannot come soon enough! As much as I'm looking forward to the novella in Side Jobs, I suspect it's just going to make the anticipation worse, not better. *g*

[identity profile] alessandriana.livejournal.com 2010-09-26 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, that's awesome. *flail* And isn't that the gravestone Bianca bought him in Grave Peril?

And yay, I hadn't realized that Side Jobs was an exclusively Butcher anthology-- I thought it was another mixed author one. Awesome! Now I can finally own all the short stories! I hadn't wanted to buy the originals, because they just get so expensive...
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[personal profile] sholio 2010-09-26 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Aha! I thought that line about dying doing the right thing was a callback to something in the series; I just couldn't remember exactly what. (I'd vaguely thought that it was something Harry himself might have said his tombstone should say, at some point.)

On a side note, I really love the covers for the series. I adore the cover artist's version of Harry, and they really seem to do a good job at getting the canon details right, too.

And yep, Side Jobs is all Butcher! I own several of the individual stories in their anthologies, but I haven't been willing or able to buy them all. And now I'll have them all in one place!

[identity profile] alessandriana.livejournal.com 2010-09-26 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep! Hmm, I wonder if it's actually going to show up in the book, or if it's just a cover-only scene? So far the covers haven't always been predictive of the content of the books, but...

Me too. Christ McGrath is an awesome artist. (And I kind of love that he does like 60% of the urban fantasy covers, so all I have to do to find new UF is look for his style...)
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[personal profile] sholio 2010-09-26 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
My guess is that it's probably symbolic rather than an actual scene from the book (like you said, the covers usually are, though not always). But we'll see! He's clearly in a graveyard. It totally could be.
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[identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com 2010-09-26 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Waaaah want so bad! Want to know what's going on~~~!!

(ahhh I can't see if he's got the "matrix" staff)(in some of the cover art his staff says "matrix" in katakana. I guess it looked something like magic runes? ^^)

That story collection looks pretty sweet, too...
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[personal profile] naye 2010-09-26 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Wellllllll, considering he's had that gravestone for a while, it's not as spoilery as it could be? BUT STILL. That is kind awesome. I am so excited! \o/ (And yet, as lovely as the covers are, they still bug the living daylights out of me because Harry does not wear a fedora. Or whatever hat he's got on in this cover. I mean. I know it doesn't matter but THERE IS NO HAT XDD.)

Whee, is it April yet?!
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[personal profile] sholio 2010-09-27 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
I know! I WANT! *makes grabby hands*

The novella in Side Jobs ought to give at least a vague idea of what to expect (at least in the sense that everyone thinks Harry is dead ... or doesn't ...) but, like I was saying in comments to the previous entry, I don't think it can possibly tie up any of the loose ends because a lot of people will only be reading the books in the main series -- it'd be sort of a bait-and-switch if it actually answered anything rather than leaving that for Ghost Story to do. So I expect a lot of suspense-building and not a lot of answering ...
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[personal profile] sholio 2010-09-27 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
Hee! I know ... but I really like cover!Harry because cover!Harry is broody and sexy, and I am shallow. XD

Like [livejournal.com profile] spark_force suggests in this comment thread to the previous entry, there's a chance that Harry might actually get to see his friends/family mourning him, and get a demonstration that he's not quite as alone as he seems to think he is. I don't want to get my hopes up too much for that, but ... that would be total fanfic come true, wouldn't it? XD
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