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EWein2412 ([personal profile] ewein2412) wrote2011-09-14 10:29 pm

new website!

I have a new website. It is really just a cheap-and-cheerful google website. But I needed something a little slicker looking, I think, than the old one, which was put together in WORD for pete’s sake. And also something I can update more easily. So. It is not the shiniest site on the planet, but for now, it will do the job.

It is here.

“Make do and mend,” ahahahahahaha!

This is the House of World War II at the moment. I am struggling to write a book about V1 bombs and the Ravensbrück concentration camp (*cough cough cough*) (why do I choose such light, easy topics?), and Mark is deeply immersed in his World War II unit in school. They have all made gas masks. Apparently, the first time their teacher played them a recording of an air raid siren, they all spontaneously dived under their desks (because Mark’s class is LIKE THAT).

Here’s me, sitting at the dinner table reading a document entitled “V-1 (Flying Bomb).” Here’s Mark: “That looks like a doodlebug.” OMG HOW IS MY 11 YEAR OLD ABLE TO RECOGNIZE A FIESELER FI-103???

And of course the Gatland household has for the past two years lived under the wing, as it were, of Code Name Verity.

Is it TWO YEARS already? I started writing it in October 2009. The UK edition comes out on 6 February 2012. I have permission to post the UK cover on my website, so I’ll post it here, too:




The US and Canadian editions come out in May 2012. There are separate publishers in each country.

The book I am writing now is hard work. CNV was easy. I feel kind of like I am writing a “second novel” all over again, ten years after I wrote my second novel.
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-09-14 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
The US and Canadian editions come out in May 2012.

Awesome!

[identity profile] katranides.livejournal.com 2011-09-14 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Fabulous. Everything--the website, the coming book--is all fabulous. Will have to pick your brain about how you do it--the webpage not the book--cuz I need to get mine up after paying over a year to have a bigger, digital version of my business card up there. Sigh.

Anyway, I believe the in-laws visited Peenemünde, where the V1 was developed or tested or something. It's actually pretty up there on the Baltic, and pretty unspoiled since it was to developed during DDR times. If you decide you must do some on-site research, we would be delighted to squire you around.

[identity profile] tiboribi.livejournal.com 2011-09-14 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I love that flaming exhaust shapes a V. V for victory, V for Verity.

[identity profile] mhari.livejournal.com 2011-09-14 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
BOOOOOOOK.

WEBSIIIIITE.

...I am like a fanzombie, I guess.

[identity profile] j-cheney.livejournal.com 2011-09-15 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
Must get the British version!!!! So excited!

Ordered! Now I have to wait.

I hate waiting.
Edited 2011-09-15 00:23 (UTC)

[identity profile] marith.livejournal.com 2011-09-15 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
CNV looks so awesome! I'm really looking forward to reading it.

[identity profile] tigertrapped.livejournal.com 2011-09-15 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
Brilliant brilliant brilliant! The cover is amazing and it's so nearly out now - exciting! Is it OK if I ask the editor of a YA book review site to try and get me a copy for M to review? (I'll be buying a copy, obviously, but thought the book review request wouldn't hurt.) Also intend blogging and tweeting the heck out of it. Can you put me in touch with the publicity people for this purpose? Beyond excited here. M just looked at the cover and said, 'Whoa. I have GOT to have that.' Cheers all round!

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(Anonymous) 2011-09-15 09:03 am (UTC)(link)
Looking for your old site, and ran across the new and was GOBSMACKED. Looks fab! And I love that cover. The tagline, I have told the truth is especially intriguing!! Looks marvelous!
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[personal profile] raanve 2011-09-15 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, this is fantastic!! :D

[identity profile] ashfae.livejournal.com 2011-09-18 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeehah!!! Can't wait. Finally got a copy of Coalition of Lions while I was in the US, btw. Hurrah!

[identity profile] resoundingjoy.livejournal.com 2011-09-20 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Suuuuuper exciting! I just finally picked up a library discard of "The Empty Kingdom" at Goodwill, so my E Wein collection is temporarily complete.