Back Cover, New Artists, and Locus Awards

Hey there! Are you guys as excited to see the official back cover of my second book, She Returns to the Floating World, as I am? ARCS are next…

Through an artist friend, I’ve discovered this awesome myth/fairy tale artist – her name is Deborah K. Scott. Check out her Red Riding Hood/Target painting here:
http://www.deborahkscott.com/gallery/102551/2011
It’s pretty fierce.

Ellen Datlow was nominated for a Locus Award, as was the anthology she edited that I was lucky enough to be included in, Beastly Bride. Congrats Ellen!

Tonight I’m going to try to sneak in a quick visit to this fundraiser for the Japanese earthquake disaster – where some kickass artists will be donating their work:
http://tsunami.fundraising.iamebi.com/
That’s before I go to C. Dale Young and Luke Johnson’s reading at Open Books.
It’s a whirlwind tour this weekend, with another friend’s book launch party, and poetry, poetry everywhere. If I can make it to a third of the stuff going on this weekend, I’ll consider myself lucky.