
Today I got the first pass proofs-I hate proofing, it’s my least favourite part of the process-but I’m also delighted by these proofs because I’m finally getting a sense of what the book might look like. Spear, my short novel set in a sixth-century Britain of demi-gods and legends, will be out in 9 months. Image description: A cropped version of the Notecard Rosette (see image description below) designed to look very much like an ammonite, or a giant eye with a dark blue pupil, with writing-”Spear” in big black letters, and, beneath that in smaller red letters, “Nicola Griffith,”-are prominent in the upper right corner.
