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Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210
| Posted on Monday, April 18, 2011 - 02:00 pm: | |
I've just received this brilliant cover mock-up from my publisher, Angry Robot. The image is a staged reproduction of an old Victorian photograph I found online, and which inspired the whole novel. Further details of the book can be found here: http://www.garymcmahon.com/2011/04/dead-bad-things.html |
   
Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec
Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129
| Posted on Monday, April 18, 2011 - 02:10 pm: | |
Oooo, I like that, Zed! I think it's in the film "The Others" (not the one based on the Thomas Tryon book, but the one starring Nicole Kidman based in Jersey in wartime) where they feature one of those old Victorian photos. Apparently they used to take photos of people after they'd died or something like that. But I'm sure you knew that anyway! Good luck with the book - looks excellent.  |
   
Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris
Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 71.228.39.43
| Posted on Monday, April 18, 2011 - 02:25 pm: | |
I think that's my favorite of your covers, Zed. Good stuff. Congrats! |
   
Des (Des) Username: Des
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.158.236.228
| Posted on Monday, April 18, 2011 - 02:52 pm: | |
Great cover. |
   
Steve Bacon (Stevebacon)
Username: Stevebacon
Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.209.108.218
| Posted on Monday, April 18, 2011 - 08:51 pm: | |
That is a superb cover. Even if I didn't know the author, that cover would prompt me to pick that book up. |
   
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77
| Posted on Monday, April 18, 2011 - 09:00 pm: | |
Thanks, everyone...I seem to have been very lucky with the covers of my book thus far. |
   
Craig (Craig) Username: Craig
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88
| Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 03:08 am: | |
That is indeed an awesome cover! |
   
Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b
Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217
| Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 08:29 am: | |
Very nice... and I can't wait to read the book itself, either. Congrats, Zed! |
   
Frank (Frank) Username: Frank
Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21
| Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 10:15 am: | |
Congrats, mate, I concur heartily with Steve B's comments about the cover. Excellent stuff. |
   
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.185.224.251
| Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 10:25 am: | |
Good stuff Zed - well done. |
   
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210
| Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 10:27 am: | |
Thanks again, folks. I appreciate youur support. All these books are the product of my ongoing mental breakdown.  |
   
Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.130.94
| Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 12:43 pm: | |
Congratulations Zed! |
   
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.24.131
| Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 01:14 pm: | |
But . . . this cover doesn't reflect the content of the book, which is all about roses and romance and amusing misunderstandings and witty priests and a cantankerous boss and a winning heroine and intertextual references to Jane Austen and an hilarious cameo from Ben Stiller. Weird. I just don't get it, sorry. |
   
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45
| Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 01:58 pm: | |
Looks great. Though my twisted imagination keeps placing Jeff Stryker under the sheet. This may be because I am a bad person. |
   
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77
| Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - 12:14 am: | |
I wonder if I'm the only one who had to Google the name Jeff Stryker...Joel, you are a bad man. A very bad man. |
   
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.24.131
| Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - 12:57 pm: | |
Well, he was either a leftist thinker or a porn star, wasn't he?  |