HEART OF OBSIDIAN: Psy-Changeling #12 - June 4, 2013!

There is also nothing to talk about when we know absolutely nothing.

Exactly. But I wish she'd give us a crumb of information...just a crumb....

@TheFluff: I also like your theory!

Just to go a fraction off-topic. This fight scene really reminds me of the Arrow squad. The psy-like powers, the deadish look in both the men's eyes, the completely black clothes.....

From Nalini's newsletter this morning:

This is my release schedule for the upcoming year as of now.

March: WILD INVITATION (to include Beat of Temptation, Stroke of Enticement, Declaration of Courtship, and Texture of Intimacy).

June: PSY/CHANGELING #12 - I have some exciting news about this release and you're the first ones to hear it. The cover and title will be revealed Thursday, January 31st, so make sure to mark your diaries! The exact time of day of the reveal will be announced in the new year.

September: UNTITLED ELENA/RAPHAEL BOOK

So, the cover and title will be revealed 1/31. That's good. I didn't think it would actually be possible to keep it a secret until June.

aaah, that sounds good, much better than keeping it a big secret....

Agreed! I'm really looking forward to seeing the cover design

Title and cover to be revealed in just a few minutes on Nalini's blog . . . .

OMG! What a beautiful name and cover!! Any idea who is pictured on the cover?

I love the cover!

I like both the title and the cover.

Same artist as the GH series apparently and it has that same feel to it.

The H has to be Psy with that title. Kaleb or Aden or Vasic. We'll be speculating for months now lol . . . .

I think it might be Vasic on the cover. That's a whole lot of black clothing and Arrows really dig the black clothing. It may also be Kaleb, but I wouldn't think that trench-coats are his style. I noticed that the cars on the cover were on the right hand side of the road so I though that might be a clue as to what city he (Vasic or Kaleb) was standing in, but wiki soon informed me, like in the States, people in Moscow drive on the right-hand side of the road. >.<

It kind of reveals... nothing *grmpf*

Obsidian might be so much.
It´s black, it´s hard, but cuts like glass

I don't think revealing the main characters will give anything away with regards to who the Ghost is. The title and cover certainly don't give any clues as to his identity. With that in mind, I hope she does reveal who the main characters are before the release date.

It's nice to have a title finally though. Hated calling it Psy-Changeling #12 all the time.

It can´t be the ghost.
She said, there will be 2-3 novels, before the final book in the ARC in last June. By then she must already have been writing on HoO, so.. this should be pretty valid.
And she always saidm, the ghosts book would be the last one in the main series.

True. But then I wonder what the whole blurb about not being able to reveal any information about the book was all about then. The last major mystery in the series is the identity of the Ghost (and the identity of Kaleb's quarry), and given that the Ghost's book would be the last one in the series, I didn't see how the cover or title of this book would give anything away about who he is. The only thing I think which would give it away would be in-book content or if the Ghost is mentioned on the back cover blurb (e.g. Wanting to discover the identity of the Ghost, Kaleb/Vasic seek out......), thus crossing one of the two main Ghost identity theories off the list.

well... whoever the hero of the book is.. we will know, he is NOT the ghost.

Since there are basically only two strong candidates at this point, and should either Kaleb or Vasic be the hero of the book... we would know, who the ghost is.

Does that make sense?

Ah, this is true! So giving away the main characters would at least reveal who the Ghost isn't. I totally didn't think about that simple piece of logic.....

The title reminds me of Abbot somehow, because of his black hair. I can't recall the character description of the other Arrows at the moment. But I hope, really hope that we get an Arrow hero.

Aden: black hair, black eyes
Vasic: black hair, silver grey eyes
Kaleb: dark hair, cardinal eyes

I really like the cover and the title. Did you see the smoke coming from the buildings? Looks like something big is going to happen. I really hope we get a blurb if not an excerpt in the coming months.

Alright, I was thinking, where did I hear Obsidian already in conenction with Psy/changeling?

"That left him with the Obsidian archive. Created by the NetMind, the neosentience that was the guardian and librarian of the Net, the Obsidian archive was a backup in case the PsyNet ever suffered a catastrophic failure. The Ghost had named it Obsidian because the complexity of data within it made it all but a wall of black. Only a rare few individuals had ever realized the Obsidian archive existed.

Even fewer knew how to access it."

<--- Kiss of Snow

As for clues on the cover: it´s definately in San Francisco

Then it's almost certain that it's really the Ghost's book!

Fluff, thanks for that!! I'd say it looks to be the Ghost's book too.

Nalini tweeted today that:
Is there a clue in the cover? Why yes. A rather large one. That is all.
- Nalini Singh (@NaliniSingh) January 31, 2013

I keep staring at the cover but I can't see any big giveaway.