Good news
Posted on | February 15, 2006 |
Today is the day I print my book manuscript and send it away to the UK. So if you missed me, blog land, I am likely to be back more often now. My ARC application is written and submitted, the Counter-Heroics issue of Continuum is on its way to the printers, and I have one tiny week’s window before I start convening my first ever first year course. Yikes. The last few months have been pretty horrendous, work wise, but hopefully things are going to be a little less hectic from now on. And very soon I will have lots of things to point to that I’ve finished and can be proud of for the rest of my life. Yay.
I have something very very important that I need help with, however. If anyone out there can think of a good cover image for my book, could you let me know soon as? I just found out I am allowed to supply my own cover - or one that is offered for free - and it can be colour, which is a lot more freedom than I was originally offered. So, thoughts? The working title is “Emotionally Invested: Cultural Studies’ Affective Voices” and the argument is about how a writer’s voice can inspire interest and investment in scholarly life. If anything springs to mind, let me know…
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February 15th, 2006 @ 3:41 pm
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.
February 15th, 2006 @ 6:29 pm
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.
February 20th, 2006 @ 12:31 pm
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?
February 21st, 2006 @ 10:24 am
i like it mel
or an artistically blurred photograph of hands gesticulating wildly in the foreground, attached (via arms) to aforementioned (passionately discoursing) mouth
February 21st, 2006 @ 2:12 pm
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!
February 21st, 2006 @ 7:30 pm
Arial Black? Good lord no. Helvetica Neue for preference.