The good folks at Uitgeverjj MACC and Zilverspoor MACC have released Plague Year in Dutch with War and Zone set to follow over the next year and a half. The trilogy has a great unified look. I also gotta say I love the new titles! Het Jaar Van De Plaag sounds very cool. Even better, to me these covers say “techno thriller” and “apocalyptic action-adventure.” You’ve got your space station. You’ve got your jet fighters. You’ve got battered survivors, irregular militia, gas masks, barricades, mind plague zombies, the works. As you know, that’s what I was going for.
I think they nailed it… and just like the Cam Najarro on the cover of the Russian edition has a rather Slavic appearance, so does the Ruth Goldman on the covers of the Dutch editions have a ‘Nederlanders’ style. I’d like to meet her! She looks tough and smart and determined.
Here are all three books in order.
The cosmic coincidence, of course, is we just saw these same battered survivors on the Russian cover of Year. They must be stock art. Now the poor bastards are suffering the nanopocalypse all over the world! 🙂
I’d like to give a special thanks to my editor Theo Barkel, who captained this project to fruition. More soon.
