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Today, I had the singular pleasure of receiving my author’s copies of the Russian edition of SONGS OF THE EARTH. Click on any image to embiggen.

I have to say it’s the dinkiest hardback I’ve ever seen, short of the BFS Journal. Compared to the German editions, it’s positively sylph-like, yet still weighs in at a substantial 479 pages, thanks to its delicately-thin paper stock.

Externally, under the gloss finish the entire cover is metallicised to give a silvery sheen to the light through the trees. This does not photograph at all well without clever lighting unavailable to a mere mortal with a phone camera and an energy-saving lightbulb overhead, but I’ve done my best. That orangey bit is my T-shirt reflecting in the finish, and if you look closely, you can even (horrors!) see the shape of my head.

Internally, the designers have gone absolutely to town with printer’s ornaments on each chapter head and page number, and in replicating the cover’s curlicues on the title page:

It’s a strange and strangely lovely thing, completely unlike any of the other books on my shelf, and I’m really rather taken with it.

I’m pleased to announce that the UK mass-market paperback of TRINITY RISING will be released on 13th June 2013 – with, I’m told, a bonus sneak peek at the first chapter of the next book in The Wild Hunt series, THE RAVEN’S SHADOW.

I will of course be doing some giveaways of signed copies (when I actually have some copies to sign and give away, that is) so check back next month for details.

As always, any giveaways that I run through this blog are fully international. I don’t care where you live, as long as you have a postal service of some description – be that a transdimensional vortex, a painted golem called Mr Pump or just an old man with a donkey who comes over the mountain every second Wednesday – you can enter.

Herewith some shameless self-promotion: