Monster Blood Tattoo 2
January 29th 2007 08:55
Not too distantly in the past I read and reviewed a chidlren's fantasy book called 'Monster Blood Tattoo: Foundling'. It was a brilliantly original and atmospheric start to what will hopefully be a very memorable series, written by an Australian author, the multi-skilled D. M. Cornish (the books are awash with his wonderful illustrations as well).
You can see the official website for the book here - Monster Blood Tattoo. It's a pretty snazzy website and you can see some of his drawings on the various pages.
Anyway, the reason I'm talking about this today is because I was 'surfing da net' and I came across Cornish's blog (see here - Monster Blog Tattoo) and he has revealed that the second book is finished. It will be called 'Monster Blood Tattoo: Lamplighter', obviously following on from where the last book left off with Rossamund becoming a lamplighter (a very dangerous profession in the Half-Continent). Cornish also revealed that this next book is substantially longer than the first, and runs at a rather sturdy 33 chapters and will include another Explicarium (though hopefully this time this appendix is nowhere near as long). If you follow the above-mentioned link to his blog you can also see a new illustration from the forthcoming book.
For the moment, it looks like 'Monster Blood Tattoo: Lamplighter' will be released around May. You can never be too sure about release dates in the book world though, but with the author being finished and all there shouldn't really be any delays (I hope!).
Looking forward to it.
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