Final Week: Day 3

The third day seems ok, if nothing else, it marks the halfway point. I started the day by making a couple of more showcards. This time it was meant to contain the jackets from all three of the author’s previous books and of course the one being published now. I took some blurry and generally crap pictures so I may try to post them. I more or less managed to spend three hours doing them at a very lazy pace.

After lunch I had to write another press release. It seems that the first and last week have been the most interesting and challenging. I find that strange but probably that is just me. The press release didn’t really take me too long but I don’t think that Emma has looked at it for corrections yet. She will probably do it on her own time to exercise control over me.

Having done the press release I did a bit of filing until the Mac was free and then went to work on my flyers. I finally got the specific information, so it was just a matter of playing with the jacket picture and title to make sure the right information is legible and jumps out. I showed them to Sara who recommended some additional information that should go on the flyers because the book jacket is not very indicative of the fact that this is actually a book. Additional information such as: Published by Ebury July 6th 2006, £10.99 Available at all good bookshops should be enough. This gave me some more time to play around (and stay away from filing.) Because it was decided that they should be send to professional printers we wanted them to be perfect.

The author this was being done for is Mark Thomas. He is meant to be hilarious and is very politically controversial. Having had some meaningful things to do today, I was more than happy to start a mail out for “Mr. Nice & Mrs. Marks: Adventures with Howard”. That leaves me two days from the end, a visit from my professor to see how the placement went but I am not quite sure how honest I should be with him. This remains to be seen.

Check out Mark Thomas’ homepage on the link below. A lot of it has been censored I think due to the nature of the content. But I think it would be worth trying to catch one of his shows or read the book.

http://www.mtcp.co.uk/