Hey, all you lucky publishing and bookselling types going to Book Expo America. This is where you can find me:
Friday, 8:00AM
Justine and I will be at the YA breakfast. (There’s an 8AM now?)
Friday, 2:30PM
I’ll be giving away and signing galleys of Leviathan in the autographing area, Table 21.
Friday, 6:00PM
Justine and I will be at the ABC Not-a-Dinner and Silent Auction.
Saturday, 10:30AM
I’m doing a panel about alternative history with Holly Black and Cassandra Clare at the BEA Big Stage. This should be cool.
Saturday later
Various cocktail parties. I’m the dude in the snazzy suit.
Sorry to all of you who can’t be here in NYC. We’ll miss you! And to make up for it, I offer the first official look at Leviathan interior art!
Yep, that’s how good Keith’s illustrations are. And this is one of fifty—in other words, two percent of the total art!
Yowza.
Leviathan comes out October 6, and you can preorder it at Barnes and Noble, Amazon, or at independent book stores everywhere. My Canadian fans can pre-order from Amazon.ca or Chapters Indigo.
Folks from Oz will also get the book in October, from Penguin Australia, and Francophones will be seeing it in autumn 2010 from Pocket Jeunesse.
This is awesome.
i wish i knew what BEA was… But awesome picture. Cant wait!
It’s Book Expo America. I’ve updated the post to reflect that. (Sorry for the industry jargon!)
Awww…the toils of living on the west coast….*sighs then gasps in amazement at the art* Okay, I’m waiting for the world to explode now. Scott’s amazingness meets Keith’s amazingness…I didn’t think it was possible for one book to be so amazing, and I haven’t even read it yet! I sooooooooo can’t wait!
5th!!! YAY!! I so cited for Leviathan!!
OMIGOSH
for a few reasons:
-im # six;D
-im out of school=.[
-i already miss my friends=.[
-AND I CANT WAIT FOR LEVIATHAN TO COME OUT!
+that pictures is super coool
Whats the big animal in the picture?? Its pretty intimidating… haha. CAN T WAIT!!!!
*sigh* I wish I lived in New York…. (except… not really. Just at times like these) ๐
Oh and:
Yay lucky number 7!! (and now 8 )
and eva-la if you are already out of should you should be flipping HAPPY! I have eight days left and I’m about to shoot myself. (not really. no need to to alert the mental health facilities. but seriously i hate school. >:| )
where is that? in nyc? pleeassee say yes =]
and the drawing is fawsome. cant wait till the book comes outt =]
That picture is just awesome.
oh, and I like the reference
so, after I just posted, I once again got the trojan message on my computer. anyone else, or is it just me this time?
i love it!! AND SCOTT-LA: U TOTALLY ROCK PPLZ SOX!
and i think i speek for every one wen i say we all totally ecetp the “offering” to “make up” for many of us who cant go:)
Whoa, this is great! Awesome art! And it’s only 2%!
Quick Question- Will there be any colored art?
And of course prom is this weekend….
How inconvenient!
Gah I wish I was at BEA! Amazing art, the release of the book seems so far away….
Awesome picture!!! ๐ I really can’t wait for Leviathan to come out!!!!! ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐
I wish I were there!
Sad ๐ Living in a very small towns in the middle fo nowhere has it’s downsides… I ABSOLOUTLEY LOVE THE ART!
amazing art!! I cannot wait for Leviathan, this is not helping…gah….
*weeps* Alas, I am working the whole weekend that BEA is happening. And I need to make money, not spend it…
Perhaps next year… *plots*
I just spelt the word absolutley wrong….
Eve-la your out of school allready? Luuuuuckyyyyyyy!! I gots 5 more days- we get out next Thursday!! We had our last band concert of the year and it was freaking AWSOME!! Haha the seniors did this really cool thing… hehe band concerts are soooo fuuun!!! To bad since we also have to march in the fall we only do 2 concerts a year, instead of the usual 3… oh, well, I guess every game we go to is a concert, though I really don’t like marching all that much… I’m thinking that next year, I’m going to warm up to it, though…
Alex-wa, it’s next thursday for me, too.
only three more finals…only two i have to really worry about…
I wish I could be in New York right now:(
The image looks great, and I can’t wait to see more when the book comes out:D
That artwork is absolutely gorgeous. Also, painstakingly familliar. I’m going to spend the next few hours trying to figure out where I’ve seen that style before.
A-ha!
http://www.amazon.ca/Darkwing-Kenneth-Oppel/dp/0060850566
Keith also illustrated Kenneth Oppel’s dinobat book. I knew I’d seen his style before. (And surprisingly it didn’t take that long.)
I was looking forward to the pictures before, but NOW I actually can’t wait.
28!!!
29!! That’s my lucky number….. Wow Scott-la, that sounds great. I hope you and Justine-la have a good time. Luckypeoplejust’costheywritebooksandaren’tminors..grumblegrumble
ANYWAYS, I absolutely A_D_O_R_E(<they don’t have underlining)the illustrations. I can’t wait!
I hope y’all crazed art-needy fans are happy now XD
WHY WHY WHY does America get everything first?? WHY? It’s not like things have to be translated into Australian-english!!
Sorry. The art is amazing. I love the wolfy thing (what is that, a werewolf?) and that haughty I’m-not-scared look on the kids face.
beautiful art!!!
Way to go, Keith-la! Amazing art.
Wish I was in New York. -_-
same here -_-
i got out of school last week.
Good article, the advertisment is sold?
Well, once again, by the not-linked-ness of my name, ya’ll should know where I’m at right now. Hahas this is probably the last time I’ll ever log in to here at school! Well, next year, maybe… no wait- I’m not taking a computer class next year… hm… you know, like I allready made my schedule a while ago, but i”m still thinking about classes! Lol It’s okay, because you can allways change a class. But anyways. I’m not supposed to be doing this. We’re supposed to be doing presentations of our travel projects right now, but some asshole decided it’d be funny to DELETE ALL OF OUR STUFF. Yup. 3 and 4 period, too. See, at the beginning of the year, each period had a folder, and whithin that folder, you had your own, which is where you store and save your work. But now, someone has deleted all of those folders, except for 7 and 8th period. So, all of our stuff is… gone. I just checked, and our period’s folder was nonexistant. So it’s a big bummer, because all of that work… gone! The tech at our school is working on figuring out who did it, and on restoring our stuff. If possible. So, yeah. But hey, I so wasn’t done with my project, so at least I don’t have to present! Hehe.
By the way, my computer is detecting trojans. Which is bad, because I’m on a school computer, so I might get in trouble if something happens to this computer… so Scott, once again, your blog is under attack!!
noooooooo. i hope they leave! any wayz………………………
I love that kid’s face in the drawing!
And gah…the detail on that monster wolf creature is simply fawesome.
you’re getting it too then, Alex-wa? good, then I’m not by myself
/waves picked up an ARC at BEA today! That was a long line. You must have been excited but exhausted!
I wish I could be there in NYC.
-Haley-wa
(visit my uglies blog site; click on my name)
Bubbly illustration! I am sooo getting that book when it comes out.
A friend of mine recently introduced me to the Uglies series. I’ve read all four books and Bogus to Bubbly. Now I want to read the rest of your books!
Ok I lnow I haven’t been on in FOREVER buuuuuutttttt I’m back now hopefully but anyways on other notes:
1)I wish I could draw like him I mean I’m pretty good but he is amazing I love the detail [I’m a sucker for good detailed art]
2)Leviathan yay!!!
3) Well I think thats all for now folks
byez,
Sierra
Jade:)รขโขยฅ
wow! i was gonna say someting but now i dont remember what….. god i really am sick! anyway i wanna talk about specials.. so all of you who love and or hate specials come on the specials spoiler page to talk!!!!!!!! plz!
the picture is bubbly, but i see how only americans get too meet you scott-la. come to london soon ? pleaseeeeeee x
hey scottie! (can we call u that??) ๐
i own Uglies, Pretties, Specials, and Peeps. STill have to buy Extras but have read it. I just wanted to say that i LOVE your writing and would like to thank you for being such an amazing writer! I knwo you are busy and dont want to read a long email so i will try to make this short.
I want to be a writer…and i have sent emails to all my favorite writers but none reply…and i wanted to know if you have any tips! I already have a story going pretty well with a good plot but im not even in high school! should i keep it going or wait until I can actually get it published to finish it? I know i want to be a writer, and I want to live in Washington (i have everything planned out except the college (that is a little scary i know)). I just want some tips from some of my favorite writers. So here i am writing you! I know you probably dont have time to write back but maybe could you try? i wrote you a year ao and totally understand but i really want a response. i have been trying to get some for over a year!! not just from you, from a lot of people! Like Lisi Harrison, do you know her?
Anyway, like I promised, I won’t make this any longer.
Writer to Writer,
Morgan.
email me with a response, if you can, at mbhafty@hotmail.com ๐ thanx!
and excuse my spelling, im rushing because there is a popsicle in the freezer calling my name!
I have Mind Rain in my hands!
I just went to the World’s Biggest Bookstore by my dance studio looking for a few other books and Buffy comics,and they had two copies in of Mind Rain! So of course I had to buy it. And now I’m totally broke. (But it is worth it!)
The cover looks even more amazing in person. The details on the non-pretty face are totally icy. I have to say, though, that I radically disagree with Lili Wilkinson about teens and language. Everything else so far I’m really loving; especially Robin Wasserman’s take on Shay (her style, it captivates me.)
I have to wonder: is the cover a reference to the Diegoan who had surged their skin to look reptillian in Specials, or is it the embodyment of how people in Tally’s time can see and spot every diffection in non-pretty people’s skin and faces?
What?! Mind Rain’s not supposed to come out until June 2nd though! Ah!
Yeah, that’s why I totally wasn’t expecting it to be in. But when I checked one of the store terminals for the price, it said there were two copies in stock.
A similiar thing happened to me last year with Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel’s Mercy; copies where on the shelves of Indigo and Chapter’s two or three weeks before the release date. I’m in Toronto, though – maybe my Canadianness has something to do with it.
(Oh man if these means I can get Leviathan early…)
Oh wows, you’re so lucky!