The Crimson Crown Cover Reveal!

They've done it again! The awesome Hyperion book designer Tyler Nevins and the incomparable illustrator Larry Rostant. They have created a show-stopping cover for The Crimson Crown, the fourth book in the Seven Realms series.
Here is the front cover. That is the Bayar double-falcon amulet in the center.

I can't wait to hold this book in my hot little hands!
To come: snippets, jacket copy, and, eventually, the first chapter.

German Cover for Das Erbe des Damonenkonigs -- Das Amulett

The German edition of The Demon King pubs in October as well. I've been working with the German translator, Susanne, via email. Usually her questions have to do with the words I made up. Her first queries related to herbs used by clan healers and streetgang members:

• Deathmaster mushroom
• Sulfur lily
• Razorleaf
• Maidenweed
• Maiden's kiss

Some of them had to do with thieves' cant -- the slang that thieves use. I found an online Thieves' Cant dictionary that I used to provide a vocabulary for Han and members of the Ragger and Southie street gangs. Words like

• Flimper: someone skilled with a garrotte
• Darbies: wrist chains or cuffs
• Hempen Widow: someone whose spouse was hung for a crime

Anyway, here is the German cover.

Dragon Heir Cover -- Woo-Hoo!

I’m so excited! We finally have a galley cover for Dragon Heir (Hyperion, 9/2008). The illustrator is the genius Larry Rostant, and the book designer is Elizabeth Clark. It may be tweaked a bit more for the final book jacket, but IMHO it’s gorgeous!! What do you think?