I’m almost finished with the book. I only need to proofread it a few dozen times …
I asked my publisher a long time ago when the exact deadline for file delivery to the printers is. He hasn’t replied yet, and since they usually require four weeks until delivery date, I’m assuming that I’m still on schedule. (I would think that he’d tell me if the date was approaching, unless he’s being really exceptionally passive-aggressive right now … V`(oo)ยด;V)
Anyway, here is the whole cover as it looks now:
I had no idea what else to put on the back cover except this Karen Blixen quote (or paraphrase, if one is to nitpick) that rather nicely sums up Driftwood: “The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.”
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In other news, Swedish Comic Sin 3 went to the printer and will be out at the end of April. :3 There are some previews of my contribution on my blog …
Now it will be exciting to see if I can somehow get some copies of it in time for SPX in Stockholm.
Nooooooooo
Poor Willie. And it’s so like her to blame herself for that relapse. I hope her father can pull himself out again.
Me and Patrik were told that the deadline for file delivery is March 26th.
And I never said this earlier, but your book cover is really gorgeous. I wish I was as skilled in working with colours and patterns…
Yes, not long after I posted this I got a message from him with that date (four weeks before delivery, like I suspected). Some kind of telepathy, maybe!
Thank you! V^(oo)^V I don’t really get to use my over-the-top design perversions (“kolhoz-style” as I think Russian designers call it?) very often, except on my own books …
I’m looking at this post in Hervanta, Tampere, in the middle of friends cheerfully eating tortillas and discussing uses of chili powder, and the tears just started to flow when I saw that book cover. It’s so beautiful and you have worked so hard for it.
Awww … :3