And its time we let you see the splendid cover image — a teaser here, but click on the circle to see it entire, if small as yet: the painting (detail from 'Shadow and Shimmer', oil on paper, 2013) and graphic design by Claire Beynon, friend of Melissa who also recently recorded and brought back from Boston the audios mentioned above.
To overcome a certain squeamishness that sets in at this stage of production, when ten times I think the job's done and ten times we find tiny glitches yet to be fixed, I'm determined to call it a dance, where we're all doing our improvised steps and everyone remains cheerful: Melissa ('Oh, joy!!'); Doug Lilly preparing website pages; Caroline Pope styling pages and fixing every little thing Melissa or I ask for . . .
As for other news, I reiterate: Winged Sandals is also in the production chute (Martin Edmond's pensive tales from the streets of Sydney— a cabbie's perspective); we'll have a Q & A with Martin soon; and editing to our Kiwi-French cookbook Fait Maison proceeds at walking pace. In its pages I keep finding perfectly delicious recipes for the seven eggs a day two of us are currently struggling to deal with here in the not-so-wilds of Hawkes Bay.
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Beautiful cover! And an exciting project - look forward to the finished product.
It is a beautiful cover and a perfect match for Melissa's book. In the truly classic tradition of fine art and fine literature, such an exciting project. And as for Ratty, well, he does march to his own drummer. xo
Thanks, Janis. It has been an exciting project. Hoping to have it available in a few short weeks . . .
Marylinn, you know how perfect a match. Fire and light. As for Ratty, as you say . . . a liability, but a survivor, nesting in a messy corner of the heart.
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