Book Girl and the Scribe Who Faced God, Part 2
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It was this editor, too, who first gave me a push and said, “Let’s write!” They brought everything they had to grappling with the series, and I believe Book Girl was a story I could only have written with this person.
I was also thrilled to always get such marvelous drawings from our illustrator, Miho Takeoka. I’ve been begging her to put out a Book Girl art book for the longest time, and it finally looks like it might happen! Once they decide when it’s going to go on sale, I’ll let you know!
The manga series has also started up. The artist is Rito Kohsaka. Tohko and Konoha look adorable in their kaleidoscope of expressions! The color is also translucent and gorgeous. It’s on sale the twenty-second of even-numbered months from GanGan Powered. I hope you’ll take a look!
There’s one other thing I want to let you know about. I wrote a collaboration with School Scarecase in a collaborative short story collection that goes on sale in October. It also includes a collaboration I did with Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts that was published on the Internet. Plus it includes a collaboration on the Book Girl that Mr. Inoue of Baka and Test was gracious enough to write and sketches by Ms. Takeoka, so that makes it a must-see! I lobbied passionately for a _____ scene of Konoha, just so you know.
Next up is a Book Girl short story collection. I’d love to write some humorous stories or maybe some make-out stories. All that’s left after that is side stories, but for those I’d want to write about “awesome, reliable Konoha.” Argh, but it feels like so much effort to write again.
This volume came safely to its end, but I’d love it if we could talk a little longer and pretend it hadn’t. I’ll see you!
Mizuki Nomura
July 7, 2008
Mizuki Nomura
Born in a tiny town in Fukushima, known to those who know it, she delighted in making up stories from a young age and dreamed of becoming a writer. She won the third Entame Award for outstanding new novel. Hobbies include morning naps, afternoon naps, evening naps, and sleeping in general.
Miho Takeoka
Born July 1 in Tokyo, now a professional drawer of pictures living in Saitama. Her greatest loves are tea, rabbits, old books of illustrations, watercolor painting, and Gekkoso sketchbooks. She is happiest when drawing pictures or making something.
http://www.nezicaplant.com/ (Note that this website is in Japanese.)
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Color Insert
Prologue—Memories for an Introduction: the Last Thing She Whispered
Chapter 1—The Murderous Desire You Trigger in Me
Chapter 2—Poison Dripping from the Hand
Chapter 3—Words Hidden
Chapter 4—A Dwindling Back, Not Even a Footfall
Chapter 5—The Anguish of Paradise
Chapter 6—When the World Ends
Chapter 7—To the Person I Love Most
Chapter 8—The Scribe Who Faced God
Epilogue—Book Girl
Afterword
About the Author
Newsletters
Copyright
Copyright
Book Girl and the Scribe Who Faced God, Part 2
Story: MIZUKI NOMURA
Illustration: MIHO TAKEOKA
Translation by Karen McGillicuddy
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Bungakushoujo to kami ni nozomu romancier vol. 2
©2008 Mizuki Nomura. All rights reserved.
First published in Japan in 2008 by KADOKAWA CORPORATION ENTERBRAIN
English translation rights arranged with KADOKAWA CORPORATION ENTERBRAIN
through Tuttle-Mori Agency, Inc., Tokyo.
English translation © 2014 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.
Cover design by Kirk Benshoff
Cover © 2013 Hachette Book Group, Inc.
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First ebook edition: January 2014
ISBN 978-0-316-24599-9
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