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It's way cool looking Forloc!  But if I may... it honestly reminded me of a jedi the first time I saw it.

I think I almost love it more than the hb cover.  ALMOST!  Like, the style of the hbs are fiting, but I love the feel of the cover.  But I do agree than Vin looks a tich old.  Still, love the cover!

I figured since they seem to live mostly during the night, they must sleep during the day.  I assume they would just find a local cave and curl up to relax in it.

So that prompts me to ask this: Can someone (say on dev-art) who got commissioned to do a fan-art piece for a book or something get in trouble?  They got paid to do what someone else requested, and the request was fan art?  Would that mostly be up to the original creator (author/artist/whatever)?

I'd like to point out something that a lot of musical artist are considering.  With the last Radio Head album (I think that was the band) they offered their cd for download, and you got to chose the price you paid for the album.  So if you said "Hey, I don't want to pay a penny for this thing" you could put in 0 into the "what would you like to pay" option and not pay anything.  I guess they had quite a few sales that way, and a lot of other bands are considering doing it as well.  I guess my point behind that is not all of the artist feel that paying nothing is really bad -- otherwise, they would have programmed into the purchase a minimum amount.

I've tried to find the ratios (this % pay nothing, this % paid 1-5, this % paid 5-10 type ting) but I haven't been able to.  I'm willing to bet though that most of the download were lower than what you would usually pay through itunes (or any other pay-for-download program) or buying the physical cd (if they paid anything.)

Just a bit of food for thought.

I made a new one... I got really bored at work.  It's supposed to be Vin coming out of the mists...

I'd like to point out that there are different levels of crazy.  There's the "Quick, lock him away.  He's a danger to himself and everyone else around him," kind.  There's the "Slightly off his rocker, and not able to funtion in the normal way, but harmless none the less" crazy (a lot of your crazy old ladies in stories fit in this.  They don't make any sense in what they say, live in the past, and are barking mad, but not going to cause any problems.)  There's the "for the most part not able to work with normal people but every once in a while comes up with the amazing idea that helps you in a pinch."  (This is like Adien would have been before the AonDor was restored, had he popped up with the number of steps like he does.) then there's the "Has weird passions, loves things that most people don't, has habits that are a bit too weird for normal people, but they can do what most people do -- just not without being looked at weird." Crazy.  I fit into this catagory, as does, I think, Kelsier (though on different levels).  I personally think Enstine was on this level as well.  (Did you know that even though he could do those insanely hardmath problems he couldn't count his pocket change?)  He's not normal in any sense of the word.  He doesn't act like most people do.  If he isn't careful he'll move up into the next step and be truly crazy.  Right now he's harmless, but still a bit off his rocker, and not living with the rest of the world, but he can do what normal people do when he needs/wants to.

I don't know about book sales, but I've noticed that activity on the forums has improved dramatically.