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Anybody know of a light green gemstone that would be suitable? (Links to gemstone pictures would be much appreciated I know very little about what types of gems are available.) In keeping with the 'jewel-tone' covers of the rest of the books - OUTLANDER is the sapphire, VOYAGER is the emerald, FIERY CROSS is the ruby, and so on - clearly ECHO can't be the black diamond anymore. I'm not thrilled with this color, but I guess we'll live with it. I also asked about the 8-page preview of the upcoming OUTLANDER graphic novel, THE EXILE, and she confirmed that it will indeed be included in this ECHO paperback. But I am not The Publisher, and she _might_ have a point about the visibility, who knows?) (Yes, I think the black is classier, too. With an eye to the extant cover colors in the series, I picked the soft green. Well, I can tell you that: the publisher (i.e., Top Dog) worried at the last minute (as the book was going off to press) that the black cover 'wouldn't be visible enough' on a table covered with trade paperbacks and wanted to change the color. So, I asked Diana (on Compuserve) for an explanation.

Lime green?!? What happened to the elegant, classy-looking gold-on-black of the hardcover edition? I happened to be browsing on Amazon earlier today and was startled by the new cover picture. trade-paperback edition of Diana Gabaldon's AN ECHO IN THE BONE will be published on June 22, 2010.

An echo in the bone paperback