I walked into a barnes and nobles bookstore a few days ago and I was searching for a new book (even though I have a dozen at home that I haven’t read and another dozen on hold) when I found a book called Holy Fire by some other author, but it had the same cover as your book. Not the white one with the box and the face in it, but the face with the electronic stuff around it and the circle around the eye. I just wanted to let you know that there is another book out there that has stolen your book’s cover.
Alexander
No, really, it’s okay. Holy Fire is a novel by Bruce Sterling, a highly respected and accomplished writer, and was first published in 1997, long before Solitaire. The original artwork for the cover was created by a wonderful artist named Eric Dinyer. When it came time to create a new cover for the trade paperback of Solitaire, the publisher’s designer found this image and adjusted it for my cover. This happens a lot in publishing; it’s called recycling artwork, and it’s a way for the publisher to give a book a new “look” without the sometimes high cost of commissioning original art.
Bruce Sterling is aware that Solitaire used the same art as Holy Fire: he made a brief remark about it on this blog if you’re interested.
That’s brilliant (in the British, Harry Potter “bloody brilliant” sense of the word).
Google doesn’t like that site…sends me to this: http://www.neonepiphany.com/blog/2004/02/13T230805 , and this: http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?client=Firefox&hl=en-US&site=http://www.neonepiphany.com/blog/2004/02/13T230805
Never mind that first link. It’s just the website if the blocking screen doesn’t come up.
Huh, thanks Adrian. That’s interesting — when I tested the links just yesterday before scheduling the post, it was fine.