Hello Third Wavers! It’s been thrilling to see people’s reaction to the launch of this site, and excitement is building for the novel! The last pieces are falling into place regarding everything we need for the debut - including some pretty excellent art coming in from my fabulous First Wave team.

Firstly, we have the book cover! What you see to the left there is the square iTunes version created by the photography of JR Blackwell and the graphic design of JC Hutchins. (You knew they both were authors, right? Go check them out already!) This is exactly what I’ve had in mind, only better.

Next - check this out - we already have the official tshirt for Keepsie’s Bar, the main setting for Playing for Keeps. Jared Axlerod created the design, and my favorite tshirt vendor, Geeklabel, is doing the shirts. What you see to the right here is but one color, style and ink of shirt you can have, so go get your official shirt so everyone will think you’re a regular.

Lastly, here are some icons if you would like to use them for LJ, Twitter, or other avatars. If you do, drop me an email and let me know. I might send you something special as a thank you. (You’ll have to shrink the hero logos down. The first is the logo for The Crane, a stretchy, winged fellow, and the second is for White Lightning, the newest hero to grace Seventh City.)