tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36835112.post654585268097956773..comments2008-07-27T01:51:22.771-04:00William Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09779582298787431216noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36835112.post-4912203234284433062008-07-27T01:51:00.000-04:002008-07-27T01:51:00.000-04:00Jeff - Good idea! But I think the artist is already selling signed prints.<BR/><BR/>Stewart - Maybe my ritual is no-ritual. Does that count? I like the time out option as well.William Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09779582298787431216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36835112.post-16491102795268545272008-07-26T12:34:00.000-04:002008-07-26T12:34:00.000-04:00Everyone needs a ritual. Dammit. Me? I like to sit in a corner and pretend to be rational for as long as possible. My personal best is ten minutes.Stewart Sternberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00895152179113722902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36835112.post-35440014529067639442008-07-25T10:25:00.000-04:002008-07-25T10:25:00.000-04:00William, maybe Chaosium can sell the cover art as a poster? That way fans can better appreciate the details. I would think there might be some customers for that. When I was a teenager I had a framed Iron Maiden poster on my wall!<BR/><BR/>http://www.allposters.com/-sp/<BR/>Iron-Maiden-Trooper-Posters_i1251103_.htm<BR/><BR/>-JeffJeff Edwardsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36835112.post-15707137535528057222008-07-24T22:31:00.000-04:002008-07-24T22:31:00.000-04:00Charles - That sounds like a possible story. I've spent so much time researching Morocco (again) that I can't help but picture the dream as a story.<BR/><BR/>Jeff - Nope, no ritual. I don't smoke, and champaign goes straight to my head. Sometimes I go out to dinner if the project has been particularly rough.<BR/><BR/>Really, the book is never really done until it is in bookstores, and then you're finding the things you'd like to change. :) In MISERY, Paul Sheldon had the great luck of typing the last sentence of the manuscript and "boom!" it was finished. I guess he had no editing, no editors, no galleys, no proofs, no layout, no revisions. That is the writer to be.<BR/><BR/>And thanks for the good words about the cover. The mock-up had the old Call of Cthulhu logo, so it filled up the top part of the art. This one is thin, so the space is free. However, as I did art direction with Malcolm on the cover, and I had this endless list of minor details to include, I regret that now the bottom of the altar is not clearly visible, and all of the work he put into the glyphs tends to vanish.<BR/><BR/>Nonetheless, I think it is a grand cover - the work of Charlie Krank at Chaosium.William Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09779582298787431216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36835112.post-16655540416850441492008-07-24T22:04:00.000-04:002008-07-24T22:04:00.000-04:00No ritual? You mean you don't open a bottle of Dom Perignon and treat yourself to a single cigarette like Paul Sheldon in MISERY?<BR/><BR/>My compliments on the new cover design. It is a noticeable improvement over the previous mock-up.<BR/><BR/>-JeffJeff Edwardsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36835112.post-79915402809967399942008-07-24T11:31:00.000-04:002008-07-24T11:31:00.000-04:00Even the name Morocco whispers of mysteries, secrets, exotics. I had a dream not long ago that took place in a future Morocco, which looked much like the current one except for the giant winged dragonflies that we rode.Charles Gramlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.com