{"id":8635,"date":"2012-04-18T11:10:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T19:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=8635"},"modified":"2012-04-18T11:10:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T19:10:48","slug":"new-covers-for-nights-of-villjamur-and-city-of-ruin-by-mark-charan-newton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/art\/cover-art\/new-covers-for-nights-of-villjamur-and-city-of-ruin-by-mark-charan-newton\/","title":{"rendered":"New Covers for Nights of Villjamur<\/em> and City of Ruin<\/em> by Mark Charan Newton"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’m fairly certain that Newton and the art team at Tor UK are just trolling me at this point. An old geezer and a melancholy Dashboard Confessional fan who doesn’t even know how to properly wear a bag with a shoulder strap? Le sigh. I’m far more interested in the fact that Newton spent some time combing through the first volume, Nights of Villjamur<\/em>, and smoothing out some of the wrinkles:<\/p>\n

There\u2019s more, though: I\u2019ve actually made quite a few (over a hundred) changes to Nights of Villjamur. Call it the ambitions of a first-time author, call it crap writing, but there were a few points of the text in this book that I believed caused a clunky experience. I\u2019ve managed to iron many, many of these out, thankfully. It\u2019s only a word or two here, a line there \u2013 not a complete re-edit, mind you, but enough to give me peace of mind that the most ridiculous of the excesses have now been removed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This sort of thing happens all the time when authors are given a chance to tinker with their own work (David Anthony Durham recently mentioned<\/a> that he’s done the same thing to the first volume of his Acacia<\/em> trilogy). Nevertheless, it would be interesting to compare the revision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m fairly certain that Newton and the art team at Tor UK are just trolling me at this point. An old geezer and a melancholy Dashboard Confessional fan who doesn’t even know how to properly wear a bag with a shoulder strap? Le sigh. I’m far more interested in the fact that Newton spent some… Nights of Villjamur<\/em> and City of Ruin<\/em> by Mark Charan Newton”>Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[31,26],"tags":[1285,54,1283,38,199,88,44],"class_list":["post-8635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-cover-art","tag-art","tag-bantam-spectra","tag-cover-art","tag-fantasy","tag-legends-of-the-red-sun","tag-mark-charan-newton","tag-tor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n