Bart King's Blog, page 181
May 10, 2012
The prettiest word you know?
The folks at Quirk Books posted a white board question that leads to some interesting choices. (I've heard that among non-English speakers, "diarrhea" sounds pretty good, believe it or not.)
May 9, 2012
Odd Cover Choices
Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely is a classic hardboiled noir book from 1940. There is one scene in it where a character gets hit upside the head with a bedspring . . . but is that really what you want to put on the book's cover?
As to romance books, they have their own cover formula of steamy girl/hunky guy.
So what went wrong here with Craig Douglas's 1966 romance The Hungry Ones? (Via.)
Record Books!
Graphic designer Christophe Gowans wondered "What if best-selling albums had been bestselling books instead?" Imaginary book designs followed. Lots of them. Check out his Flickr page here; some of the designs are available as postcards. (Via.)
