Title of Book: The History of Organized Crime – The True Story and Secrets of Global Gangland
Author: David Southwell
Format: 280 x 230mm in hardback
Extent: 224 pages
Text: 100,000 words
Illustrations: More than 200 colour and black and white illustrations
Publication Date: October 2nd 2006
Price: £17.99
ISBN-10: 1 84442 177 5
Today it all seemed somewhat more believable that I had worked for weeks to produce a book when I saw the above words on an advert for the first time.
I spent the afternoon captioning up some of the advance promotional material. I still hate the bullet hole constellation in brown they are using for the cover, (it would work much better in black or white), but I have to admit to being a little impressed by the cool as fuck way they have used a Black Panthers shot to open the Gangland America chapter.
It is the first time I have had a true Harold Evans’ Pictures On A Page moment in one of my books. If you have ever worked as an editor, designer or sub on a newspaper, you will know why that makes so pleased.
2 comments:
Well done! Pat on your back!
The pat on the back lies with my former editor and the book’s designer, but they have done a great job. The couple of people who have seen the preview pages were impressed and as punter, I would be tempted to buy the book purely on the strength of the Black Panther spread.
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