I hope you’re as excited as we are! The next adventure of Brigitta of Tiragarrow is The Ruins of Noe, has been completed by Danika and is set to be released on April 21 May 1!

Pre-orders are now being taken through the Hydra House website for a mere $10, through April 20. After that, they go back up to the regular price of $12.95.

To pre-order, click here.

If you like the cover as much as we do, click here to get a full-color print of artist Julie Fain’s work.

Here’s a teaser of the story:

“I don’t understand,” said Brigitta, and then glanced back down as the baby yawned and opened her eyes. They were crystal white.

“She has no destiny.” Ondelle reached in, picked the baby up, and cradled it in her arms. “The Ethereals have not visited her.”

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A child born with no destiny: one of many signs that the White Forest faeries have lost touch with the Ethereals, the Ancient Ones. High Priestess Ondelle is convinced by an old proverb that one faerie is fated to travel to the former home of the Ancients, the Ruins of Noe, to find the answer. That faerie, she believes, is Brigitta.

Ondelle and Brigitta set off to save their forest once again, but when they arrive in Noe they discover something they never learned from any faerie tale. Why had this dark secret been kept from them? Why in the name of Faweh had the Ancients left some faeries behind?

I came across an article about an interesting advertisement for a book:

It’s an interactive book cover, which is a lot of fun to just play with, but it really begs the question about the future of ebook covers.

And it makes you think.

What else could be done? How else could we sparkle up the electronic version of the book cover? There are already what are called “ebook apps,” which is really just a fancy way of launching the book on an iPad (or other tablet) without having to  open an e-reader first. (You can also add other components to an ebook app, like a game, but that’s a little off topic.) The cover images of your basic Kindle are, at the moment, static. But we’re not so far away from seeing interactive covers on such ereaders.

The two big obstacles are memory and finding a program to utilize to run that cover. Meaning, what would you build it in? Flash? HTML5? The e-reader has to run that, which takes CPU resources, which slows your reader down, which would also hog memory …

We’re probably not quite there yet. But almost.

In the meantime, just play with that cover. Go on, play with it.