Alas.

While visiting my local bookstore this weekend, I was excited to see a beautifully bound, Alice In Wonderland-inspired book on the new fiction shelves: Frank Beddor's The Looking-Glass Wars. Unfortunately, my excitement was slightly dampened when I discovered that I'd already read it.

Like, a year ago.

In paperback, no less.

Eventually, I realized that I must have picked up my copy of Beddor's novel in England, where the book has been out for about a year and a half. Google then lead me to the accompanying comic book series, Hatter M, which looks very... manly. (From what I recall, the Hatter in Beddor's world is an assassin. I can't remember what the pointy thing that he's holding is, though. Maybe millinery shears?)

While I'm usually pretty irritated by staggered release dates, I trust that the wide gap between the British release date and the American one means that the wait for the second novel will be very, very brief.