Comments on: Good news

By: Nick Caldwell

Nick Caldwell — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:30:23 +0000

Arial Black? Good lord no. Helvetica Neue for preference.

By: jean

jean — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 04:12:17 +0000

oh, and the bog-standard cover should be brown with yellow type in arial black or something. the title text could be half on the bogstandard cover, and half on the sensual mouth bit…

it’s looking less silly in my head all the time!

By: jean

jean — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:24:14 +0000

i like it mel

or an artistically blurred photograph of hands gesticulating wildly in the foreground, attached (via arms) to aforementioned (passionately discoursing) mouth

By: Mel

Mel — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 02:31:07 +0000

Something about ‘affective voices’ summoned a mental image of a boring bog-standard ‘academic’ cover design sort of peeled away about two-thirds down to reveal a mouth underneath.

I’m sorry, that was really naff. What about some kind of financial metaphor, given the ‘investment’ angle?

By: Snurb

Snurb — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 08:29:40 +0000

Yay - congrats and good luck with the rest of the process from here on in. When do you expect it to hit the stores?

As for covers, I’m sure there’s a spaceship angle here somewhere, so I trust you’ll go with Nick’s suggestion. In the highly unlikely event that this does not eventuate (and that you have a little money to throw at this), I can also recommend Gordon Grace, who did the cover for my first book.

By: Nick Caldwell

Nick Caldwell — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 05:41:02 +0000

I’m trying to think of an angle that could connect that title with 3D-rendered spaceships. ‘Cos I could totally do that. Failing that, I could do some abstract photoshop stuff.