Guest Starring Superman and The Avengers
After spending most of the day traipsing, I came home to write the blurb material for Global Gangland. Walking a dozen miles in the damp is not the best way to get into an inspired mode for writing cover copy and may explain why it is not my best work. I was just too tired to be either massively enthused or sparkling.
My attitude may have been less serious than was needed as well. I really wanted to be able to include the line: ‘Guest starring Superman and The Avengers’. However, whilst it is true and would make a boyhood dream come true, it is not what the publisher wants. It would also probably prompt legal action by DC and Marvel. In the end I did try to stay more relevant and fulfil Amie’s brief of making it ‘focussed on the history angle but still intriguing’.
Whilst doing the blurb I decided it is time to change the author bio. When people are making entries on about you on Wiki using your own old jokes it becomes very tired, very quickly. Therefore, I have suggested they change the back flap to: ‘With two serious death threats from criminal gangs and a warning from the Wo Shing Wo Triad to remove his hands received during the writing of this book, David Southwell has seriously considered disappearing off of the map, buying a small place in Newfoundland and retiring to write comic books and his movie script about the life of Bill Hicks.’ All of which is true, if not something that will fascinate potential book buyers or be translatable into Wiki.
My attitude may have been less serious than was needed as well. I really wanted to be able to include the line: ‘Guest starring Superman and The Avengers’. However, whilst it is true and would make a boyhood dream come true, it is not what the publisher wants. It would also probably prompt legal action by DC and Marvel. In the end I did try to stay more relevant and fulfil Amie’s brief of making it ‘focussed on the history angle but still intriguing’.
Whilst doing the blurb I decided it is time to change the author bio. When people are making entries on about you on Wiki using your own old jokes it becomes very tired, very quickly. Therefore, I have suggested they change the back flap to: ‘With two serious death threats from criminal gangs and a warning from the Wo Shing Wo Triad to remove his hands received during the writing of this book, David Southwell has seriously considered disappearing off of the map, buying a small place in Newfoundland and retiring to write comic books and his movie script about the life of Bill Hicks.’ All of which is true, if not something that will fascinate potential book buyers or be translatable into Wiki.
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