So according to Lulu I’ve sold three copies of my book. One to my girlfriend, one to my father, and one to my aunt. So apparently no one has bought my book who just stumbled across it on their own. Fair enough, I guess.
I heard back from the lego artist guy. He thinks there are a lot of semi-colons in the first chapter. Fair enough, I guess. He also wants to know what my thinking is behind a lego cover for a non-lego book. This is something I’m going to have difficulty explaining.
He’ll probably want to charge a squillion dollars anyway. I’ll try to think of something else that I can do. It’s tricky. In my mind now, pretty much nothing can beat the idea of a lego pirate.
March 16, 2008 at 1:11 am
Macmillan have changed the covers on all their Matthew Reilly books to make them less phallic. Perhaps that raygun might put off a female readership?
March 16, 2008 at 7:52 am
… or attract female readers who like the sexy, phallic toy gun…
Me, I prefer knives, quieter & don’t run out of ammo. (err, TMI?)
Punctuation nazi I wasn’t, when I was skimming a few chapters months ago… the plot grabbed me fast enough to make me ignore some stylistic stuff.
I think the style of Pirate Lego would still have some resonance, especially if you make sure that your other graphic projects are referenced somewhere on the sleeve liner notes..!! FWIW…