Opinion, Please!
Feel like giving me your opinion?
I sure hope so!
We sent a little questionnaire about the possible reissue of the Sammy paperbacks to booksellers we visited on the Southern Loop of our tour. I thought it would be nice to get your input, too! After all, who knows Sammy better than you guys, right?
There's lots I could say about this, but I think it's best for objective feedback if I just present it to you without preamble. The Overview is not necessary for most of you, but I'm including it nonetheless, and I've whittled the questionnaire down to two basic questions.
Here we go!
OVERVIEW: Sammy Keyes is a scrappy middle school
girl who lives illegally in a seniors-only apartment building with her
grandmother. People define her as a modern-day Nancy Drew, but she can be hot
headed and sassy. The 18-book series takes her from the first week of 7th
grade through 8th grade, with each book occurring about a month
later in her life. Although content and language are clean and the books are
funny, Sammy tackles serious subjects, making the books edgy and tween/teen-relevant without crossing into YA
territory.
On the left are two images—the existing paperback
cover art and a very rough, incomplete mock-up of what a realistic cover might
look like. (We’d need to have a girl with jeans and high-tops, for starters!)
As a basic concept, though…
QUESTION #1:
Which style of cover do you think works better, HUMOROUS (the yellow one) or REALISTIC (the
mock-up)?
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS?
How about the images below? Any comments?
QUESTION #2:
The series is presently not numbered. Would
you prefer the books to remain UNNUMBERED or be NUMBERED (and throw in a Why if you're so inclined.)
If you have other comments do express them! And if you have an image idea that you think better captures Sammy, send it to me here.
As always, thanks for checking in. Really looking forward to your comments!
I sure hope so!
We sent a little questionnaire about the possible reissue of the Sammy paperbacks to booksellers we visited on the Southern Loop of our tour. I thought it would be nice to get your input, too! After all, who knows Sammy better than you guys, right?
There's lots I could say about this, but I think it's best for objective feedback if I just present it to you without preamble. The Overview is not necessary for most of you, but I'm including it nonetheless, and I've whittled the questionnaire down to two basic questions.
Here we go!
OVERVIEW: Sammy Keyes is a scrappy middle school
girl who lives illegally in a seniors-only apartment building with her
grandmother. People define her as a modern-day Nancy Drew, but she can be hot
headed and sassy. The 18-book series takes her from the first week of 7th
grade through 8th grade, with each book occurring about a month
later in her life. Although content and language are clean and the books are
funny, Sammy tackles serious subjects, making the books edgy and tween/teen-relevant without crossing into YA
territory.
On the left are two images—the existing paperbackcover art and a very rough, incomplete mock-up of what a realistic cover might
look like. (We’d need to have a girl with jeans and high-tops, for starters!)
As a basic concept, though…
QUESTION #1:
Which style of cover do you think works better, HUMOROUS (the yellow one) or REALISTIC (the
mock-up)?
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS?
How about the images below? Any comments?
QUESTION #2:
The series is presently not numbered. Would
you prefer the books to remain UNNUMBERED or be NUMBERED (and throw in a Why if you're so inclined.)
If you have other comments do express them! And if you have an image idea that you think better captures Sammy, send it to me here.
As always, thanks for checking in. Really looking forward to your comments!
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I thought they were already numbered?!?!? I went onto a website and they said they had them in order. Oh well. I only found the website after I'd read a couple. It doesn't really matter the order, but it helps because sometimes there's MINOR spoilers in later books.
I love the picture of the skateboard on the left! It would be cool to change it to different colors so that it's easier to tell that the books are different. Maybe?
This series was really cool! It's on my list of 7 best books/ series ever!!!!! I really enjoyed it!