While writing a previous post about a local book release party for Susannah Felts’ debut novel, I got sucked into her publisher’s site and found this rather cool, yet simple marketing tool.
Basically, they take a few excerpts and type set them onto letter size pages, for you to freely print out, from their site. Then, following the numbers, you fold it all up and have a little mini-book with cover and all.
This is pretty cool. Worked up in the 80’s by John Knoll, this 32×32 pixel icon is what Adobe kick started their PhotoShop application with. Pretty cool find. And the icon is a pretty good likeness to an actual “photo shop”.
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I have seen some of these before, but there are enough new ones to post about it. The typogrphically inspired on remains one of my all time favorites.
But I have to say that this one…
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I ran across thebookseller.com’s “Oddest Book Title Prize” this weekend. So far I Was Tortured By the Pygmy Love Queen has my vote. You can vote too, with the winner being announced March 28th.
I mean really “pygmy love queen”? How do you come up with that?
