On Second Thought

[House of Mustard]

Well, the book finally has a cover and a release date.  You can check it out on Covenant's website:

http://www.covenant-lds.com/Products/comingSoon.htm

Scroll down to the March books.

[Tage]

So when are you holding the signing? I want my autographed copy.

[House of Mustard]

It would certainly be nice if they had a definitive date.  Whenever I ask them, they say: March.  I don't know what their problem is.

[Fellfrosch]

Congrats. Looks like a pretty good cover treatment, though it doesn't immediately suggest "comedy," at least not at that size. Are you going to be doing signings and readings and stuff? My understanding is that most of that you have to organize on your own, and hitting some major bookstores in the first few weeks could really help out.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Why is it Covenant Communications? Its not based off that Donaldson person's books is it? Not that that is going to deter me from purchasing your book. And huzzah to ya!

[House of Mustard]

I'm not sure what Donaldson thing you're refering to.  I assume it's called Covenant because of the religious affiliation (not to say the book is a religious book).

So far, I haven't heard anything about book signings, although I've only recently started talking with the marketing dept.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Donaldson's Thomas Covenant series. Thats the covenant I'm referring to. Didn't really get a religious connotation until I started seeing books about Mormons, and other religious things.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Covenant in this case certainly refers to religious connotations. It is a publisher primarily of material about LDS doctrine or for an LDS audience.

[House of Mustard]

My editor just emailed me, and the release date is officially March 1, 2004.

[Mistress of Darkness]

Looks like a pretty good cover treatment, though it doesn't immediately suggest "comedy," at least not at that size.

I don't know. Isn't the guy's head the "<--->" traffic sign? But, it is very small. Looks cool though.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

there's a person on that cover? i seriously couldn't see ANY detail.

[House of Mustard]

There's a guy in the lower left corner.   He is wearing a suit (I don't know why) and he is holding the <--> sign in front of his face (it has a short little handle -- one arm is at his side and the other is at his chest, holding the sign).  He is standing in a deserty/sagebrushy field.

It actually works pretty well.  The street sign thing started out as a little goofy joke, and Covenant had me convert it into an overarching moral.  Kinda odd, but at least the cover is nice.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Speaking of lower corners, I notice I'm not at war anymore, but that my reference to The Who was appreciated.

[Mr_Pleasington]

This is very cool!

Congrats, Mustard!

[EUOL]

Huzzah!

And so the TWG forum members begin their march to take over the publishing world!

Well, okay.  Stacer probably already began that march.  But this begins the author side of it!

In thirty years or so we'll all have to get together and have some hoity-toity "We're cool" club where we sit in overstuffed, high-backed chairs by the fireplace and congratulate each other on being so awesome.  (Ala the inklings.)