Showing posts with label Robert Olen Butler. Show all posts
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Thursday, October 13, 2016

Grand Slams: The cover design story of the soon to be released novel


B) I'd like to order a blurb....
Let's start with the back because that's where much of the story takes place, the back area of Grand Slams restaurant. Christopher Reilley, Big Table Publications cover designer, and I came up with the back cover design to look like a menu. The prices do not reflect the authors--but the new items appear at the top ( Todays Grand Slam Appetizers).  The new items are blurbs by Nadine Darling, Jessica Keener and Daniel Nester. 

Favorites and Wordy Meals are just that. These are my favorite blurbs from the past or just the wordy meals about my writing from some of my most favorite authors, writers and poets. To see the photo in it's larger form, just click on it.

Hope you're ready to place your order.



A) The front cover is an actual table shot of a Grand Slams Breakfast, oops I mean, The Double Home Run Breakfast served at Grand Slams. The font used is the actual font that Denny's uses and the border strips of color reflect the 1980's, the time period the novel takes place. So open the pages for a story with good eats--open anytime, 24 Hours.

And then there's the spine. I don't have anything to say about the spine



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Of course there are always some mock-ups or ideas that run through my head. Here's the parade (in order of last to first which I sent designer Christopher Reilley. I just love process, don't you?

1) Less definition but close to the end
2) Script font before using the font closest to based-on restaurant's. 




















3) Totally different but definitely based on "today's covers"

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4) My original thought. Going for the basic, memorably imagery.


Saturday, June 21, 2014

Coming Soon: The Thursday Appointments of Bill Sloan (a novel)...some blurbs and West Coast Schedule-SD, Sea, Portland, Oakland and LA


Some Reviews from 

a) The Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene
b) Amazon 

  As the son of two psychoanalysts, I feel qualified in diagnosing Timothy Gager as a very sick human being and a fearless writer. His prose is odd, mordant, and disobedient. Read him at your peril.

Steve Almond, “God Bless America: Stories”
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Timothy Gager's “The Thursday Appointments of Bill Sloan” is a gangbusters novel, its characters sharply defined against a backdrop both tense and funny. Bill Sloan is the therapist no one wants, especially since you might say he needs therapy more than his patients. This is a great read.

Rusty Barnes, co-founder Night Train Magazine, author of “Reckoning”
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Timothy Gager blasts another beauty of twisted humanity at its best in “The Thursday Appointments of Bill Sloan”. Gager steers us “like a bird without wings” through this hilarious and strangely familiar brood of characters, accelerating and diving down into the intricacies and mania of our own inner pathos. Get a copy!



–Meg Tuite, “Bound By Blue”   
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September 2, 2014 Cambridge, Ma
Book Release Party
event listing Porter Square Books, 7 PM 

Tuesday Release Pary Appointment of The Thursday Appointments of Bill Sloan
Porter Square Shopping Center

with readings by Robin Stratton (Publisher of), 

Christopher Reilley (cover design) 
and Rusty Barnes (famous Blurber of)
...and then the tour
(to help fund the tour with half going to charity, while reading the reasons, go HERE)




 

 October 6, 2014 San Diego, California 
event listing The Ink Spot, 7 PM 

Monday Appointments with San Diego Writers 
2730 Historic Decatur Rd., Suite 203, San Diego, Ca

Featuring with Heather Fowler, Maggie May Ethridge and Bonnie Zobell
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October 9, 2014 Seattle, Washington
event listing

Bang and a Smoke Series, Time 8 PM

The Interrobang Appointments of Timothy Gager

The Pocket Theater
8312 Greenwood Ave. N., Seattle
 

Featuring with Dave Clapper's Interrobang Improv
The Pocket Theater, 
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October 10, 2014 Portland, Oregon
event listing

The Jade Lounge, 8 PM 

Friday Appointment with Portland Writers 
2342 SE Ankeny Portland, Oregon

Featuring with Parker Tettleton, Liz Prato, Dena Rash Guzman
Yuvi Zalkow, Sam Snoek-Brown,  and Julia ClareTillinghast  
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October 11, 2014  Oakland, California
event listing listed later 

E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore

The Saturday Appointment with Bay Area Writers
410 13th St.Oakland, California

Featuring with Alexandra Naughton and TBA
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October 12, 2014 Los Angeles, California 
event listing

Roar Shack Series, 4 PM 

The Sunday Appointment with LA Writers
826 in Echo Park 1714 West Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, Ca 
Los Angeles, California

Reading with: Tanya Ward Goodman, Kima Jones and Jeff Edwards 
Hosted by David Rocklin 

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 November 16, 2014 New York, New York
event listing listed later

Sunday Salon, 7 PM 

Jimmy's no. 43 
43 East Seventh Street, , New York, New York

Hosted by Nita Noveno and Sara Lippman


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