Guess what I’m holding?!? Cover proofs for THE SKYLIGHTER!!

Okay….wow. I was totally not anticipating this!  The front of THE SKYLIGHTER cover has that cool Northern Lights thing going on, but check this out:

Instead of using a plain backdrop, they put the blurbs (which are *squee* totally awesome) over a photo of Rafi’s torso!  I LOVE the blue accent color they used for the authors’ and reviewers’ names and titles.

Here’s what it looks like all laid out:

The pictures and the jpgs I posted earlier do not do it justice.  It’s beautiful wrapped around a book in a way I didn’t expect until I held it in my hands.  Many thanks to the crew at Simon & Schuster/Margaret McElderry for their fabulous work!