BOOK SIGNING SATURDAY!
Saturday, November 20, 2010: 5 pm – 7 pm
It’s fantasy night at Dragons & Fairy Tales bookstore. I’ll be there with NY Times best-selling author Larry Correia, mega-popular comic strip writer Howard Tayler, ”I Am Not A Serial Killer” author Dan Wells, and others.
3535 E Ranches Parkway Suite A
Eagle Mountain, UT 84005
801-789-5014
Click here for store details
Yeah, Baby! We’ve got Dark God Tees! And all thanks to Fiction Addictions. You get to choose from two designs which you can see below. Please note: The Dark God got his fans some SPECIAL HOLIDAY PRICING! Through December 2010: $13.99 for standard style, $15.99 for the ladies fit.
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Enjoy! And welcome to the Grove.
P.S. If you desire, you can post pictures of yourself displaying your great sense of fashion (or the burnt crisp of your thunderstruck remains) on http://www.facebook.com/authorjohnbrown
Boldly proclaim your allegiance with a simple front that states who you serve. NOTE: May attract lightning.
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I’ve got a deal to make t-shirts for my book available, and I have to make some decisions. The problem is that I am terrible at making these kinds of decisions. So I’m asking for your help. Any input would be appreciated.
So we’ve decided on the design. It will say “Servant of a Dark God” on the font as shown. We might put “Welcome to the Grove” or “Beware, the Mother is Watching” on the back. It will NOT have the Tor logo indicating it’s a book. Who knows what that is anyway? Instead, the question is whether to put my name on the shirt in some fashion.
Option 1
Some suggest that it’s better to just have a shirt that has the crazy label, suggesting the wearer is a servant of a dark god. It’s provocative, and if someone asks, the person wearing it can talk about the book. With this option we would NOT put my name on the t-shirt, just a small open book icon under the title. The idea behind this is that those who would buy the shirt would already be fans and the provocative statement will do more to spread the word than my name because going this route will make the shirt more fun to wear.
Option 2
Others think that you should have your name on the shirt to advertise. So we’d put “by John Brown” underneath the title. Or we’d put it on the back of the shirt. But some say it would make the shirt less fun.
What would you prefer and why?
Because of the way we’re going about this, the color of the letters must be fixed. So the question is do we simply let people choose their own shirt colors that they thing will work with the color of the lettering or fix both the color of the lettering AND the shirt?
Option 1
Fix the shirt colors. Brown for guys and plum for women. Make the lettering a fantasy green or cream.
Option 2
Give people as much choice as possible and choose a font color that will work with the bulk of the shirt colors here: http://gildan.com/distributors/colorpalette/.
But what would color would do that and still say fantasy, or would it matter?
So which option to you think would work best? If you chose option 1, which colors?
Why is John worrying about this? Shouldn’t he be spending his time tracing his ancestry back to old grandpa lemur?
The answer to that is that John’s mind works in mysterious ways, dear Reader. You must bear with him. And you must now face your greatest fashionista test ever: which colors would say fantasy and still be something people would want to wear? I will be making shirts up for the book store employees to wear before I come to signings. So I have to decide. Someone suggested plum is all the rage this year for women. Make the letters a nice new willow green. We could have another color for men. Any ideas of what would appeal broadly?
I await your ideas.
(Ha, look at this. It appears one of my greats did indeed live his life out in the Prague menagerie. Hum.)
For those who missed the live show, you can find the recording of the Dungeon Crawlers Radio interview here or you can find a link on the DCR site. I had a great time with Malak, Revan, and Joe. Talked about the current and upcoming series and some other stuff.
