She has a new website up – http://www.pottermore.com/ Any ideas? Apparently, it’s not a new book, but I haven’t heard what it might be. A short story perhaps?

Three intrepid photographers embarked on a risky adventure to photograph the U.S. Navy’s mothball fleet anchored in Suisin Bay, 30 miles northeast of San Francisco. They even slept on the ships over the period of several weekends! You can see more of their photos and read about it here – http://scotthaefner.com/beyond/mothball-fleet-ghost-ships/

Thanks to Steve Saffel for originally posting about it on Facebook.

(If you click on the cover it gets much bigger for more detail)
I’ve had to keep the cover under wraps until now, and there still might be a tweak or two, but this is pretty much it. What can I say, it rocks! I love the change in direction. As much as I loved the bold colors of the first two, this new one grabs me in a whole different way. I’m very, very happy with this. Huge, massive thanks to everyone at S&S who worked on this.

Cheers,

Chris

I was never a big zombie fan except for stuff like Shaun of the Dead and Zombie Land, but the Walking Dead hooked me. There’s something so incredibly cool (vicariously speaking) about an apocalypse and being the lone, or one of the few, survivors in what has now become an alien landscape. Very compelling. You can read a little about the new season here http://www.deadline.com/2011/06/first-photo-from-season-2-of-walking-dead/

I lived in Pennsylvania for a few years before moving back to New York. While I was out there in Amish country (just kidding) I found a really cool sci-fi and fantasy reading group that met every month in the B&N in Camp Hill. It’s called Watch the Skies http://mysite.verizon.net/res89guj/ and is run by B&N store manager and now published writer Jeff Young. Anyway, when A Darkness Forged in Fire came out Jeff and the group invited me back to do a signing and talk. What was even cooler is that they made up a program for the event, and Eric Hardenbrook, one of the members, rendered the Viceroy’s scrying table for the cover. I think that was the first time I had ever seen an image from my book brought to life. Very, very cool. As it happens, I bumped into Jeff and Eric at Balticon and Eric still had the artwork and was kind enough to send it to me so I could share it with you.

In other news, New York is about to get slammed with a heat wave. Mid 90s and more starting tomorrow. If anyone needs me, I’ll be sitting in my ice cube tray.