[hr][/hr]Update: I've extended this excerpt, to match the one listed on Penguin's website. Read the whole thing here! A nibble from The Sending to whet the appetite.... Part of this excerpt has been kicking around in the Road to the Sending Whose Line Competition for about a month - and now, we can share the entire excerpt for your reading pleasure! To read the excerpt in full, make sure you're logged in, then follow the link: A nibble from The Sending to whet the appetite...to Obernet, from Isobelle. For those of you not logged in, here's an...er...excerpt of the excerpt :P

...I tried to wake but a forest clearing wove itself into a living cage about me, the breeze that fanned my cheeks pungent with the scent of pine needles. A figure appeared before me suspended above the ground, emanating pallid lavender light. Human-shaped but scaled like a fish or a lizard, its eyes were a queer cloudy white, its hair insubstantial as mist. ‘Guildmistress, help us.’ Read On...

"Thank you Isobelle" doesn't quite cover it, does it? :D Not long to go now! [act]points to counter on the right[/act]. If you missed the news, The Sending will be released on the 31st October 2011. [act]flails and squees all 'round[/act]