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Tim Arnot - Flick Carter #1: FREED!
Would being hasty make it a runner bean?
M.T. wrote: "After 20 minutes slowly cutting and pasting on my crappy apple browser it reloaded the entire form, empty, just as I was about to press send. I'm afraid I'll have to do it again when I have access ..."Wot Patti said - Chrome.
Mugs are awesome :) The links on the form are the important bits, so we can drive people in your direction. You must say what you want people to do for it - likes, shares, you name it. Also any promotional jpegs - teaser adverts etc we can use will all help big it up :)
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Would being hasty make it a runner bean?"Sounds worryingly close to being healthy!
Could make hasty pudding
Tim wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "Would being hasty make it a runner bean?"Sounds worryingly close to being healthy!"
Can't have that!
Quick! Change it to a coco bean!
That looks like rabbit turds.
How about chocolate covered coffee beans?
They also look like rabbit turds.And don't give any to David. He'd just suck the chocolate off.
The paperback proofs have arrived - yay! :)
That's a great cover, Tim. And I love your smile!Give us the blurb, please?
It's dramatic, isn't it?
Yep, still love that cover, and it's owner looks so happy :~)
David wrote: "Yep, still love that cover, and it's owner looks so happy :~)"He must have just eaten his bean for the day.
It's actually sunk by about half an inch (not quite sure how - the Kindle version is correct, and the thumbnail on the back is correct. But when you hold it up against book 1, the titles don't line up (which they should). So it'll need to be fixed.Still, these 5 copies will be worth a fortune in about 50 years -- the sunken cover pre-release edition. Going on eBay for 8 grand.... (in my dreams!)
Createspace binding is not the most accurate, I've come to realise.
Still haven't given us the blurb, Bean Boy.
The problem is not the binding, since the spine and back cover are spot on. It's just the front cover -- the title block must have got dragged down at some point in production without me noticing.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Still haven't given us the blurb, Bean Boy."Gosh you're right! Everywhere else they're sick of it; wonder how this thread got missed out :-/
Ah, I see what you mean. Just one of mine was low by about 3mm on cropping, the spine aligned correctly though, which is more important.
Here's the full cover - front, back & middle (the title block is dropped on this too, so it's definitely my fault for not spotting it earlier)
And for those that can't read the microscopically small (!) text on the back cover:
For seventeen year old Flick Carter, things have hit rock bottom. Devastated by the loss of her family, her only escape from the nightmares comes from a bottle.
But when someone starts brutally murdering her friends, Flick finds herself facing a different kind of killer, and a conspiracy that goes all the way to the palace.
Driven from her home, Flick must harness all her inner strength and overcome her demons if she is to stay alive.
150 years after The Collapse, the Information Age is long gone; the clouds of data that once drove humanity are little more than ash. The few remaining people get by as best they can, improvising or scavenging through long-derelict cities. This is the world of the Kingsmen, elite enforcers with the power of life and death.
Welcome to 23rd Century Britain
Tim I'm really sorry I'm not going to be able to do proper stuff on the day but if you want me to post something on my blog a few days before or to go live on the day itself, I'd be happy to.Cheers
MTM
I'll do the improper stuff - fnar, fnar!
How many days till the launch party?
Your image isn't working.And five.
Oh. I refreshed and now it's working.Sorry.
Looks very cool!
Cheers Patti :) Dunno why the pic didn't show the first time - probably some cacheing thing or sommat.
Prob a blip in my Internet, Tim.
Deliveries of chocolate are arriving...
The fountain has spurted? Aye, well it takes some of us that way, lad. Put a clean pair on. No one will notice.
Kath!We are a young persons welcoming group.
Behave you!
What did I say? *bats eyes in innocence*
There's still a couple of hours of, er, spurting on FB, for any late nighters... :)
Thanks Mary :)Mary, could I get you to pop onto the event page sometime and post a picture of the correct mug? I wasn't sure which one it was, and kinda just picked one of Zazzle...
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That's awesome!
You'll have to have a second bean tonight to celebrate!
Mary, download Chrome onto your iPad, darling. So much better than Safari.
It's a free download. Just search in the App Store. Geoff told me about it as soon as I bought the iPad.