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The Last Dragonslayer is now in paperback, and with a cool new take on the original cover art!!
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The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde is the first
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The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde is the first in the Chronicles of Kazam, his new series for young readers. Many years ago I gleefully gobbled up
I love the quarkbeast!
YES!! My favorite fantasy beast, since the Raggant from ND WIlson's 100 CUPBOARDS trilogy. Wouldn't it be cool to compile a list of best fantasy beasts of the 20th/21st century then pair it with a compendium of mythical beasts. Then they could pair up, like a hippogriff with a quarkbeast and create all new creatures...
The two covers both look so good. Love the different perspective of the cars.
Agreed! I don't like it when the paperback cover is radically different from the original. I also wish I understood why the UK covers always have to be different from the US? Probably some marketing thing that I wouldn't understand, but in most cases, I think the US are often better...
"Rules out lives"? Interesting, if frightening, typo...if it is one.<br /><br />Covers are often changed because what sells in one country doesn't sell in another; it's doesn't make sense but it's proven in the sales receipts.
@=Tamar - HA! Thanks for catching that typo - it IS a typo but, as you noted, it could just as easily, frighteningly, not be one... And, re: US vs. UK book covers, I realize that they put one the covers that the think will sell best in each country, I guess I just find it hard to believe that what appeals to people here is so different than what appeals to people in England. Maybe it's a