The Cover for The Wonderful Stupid Man

I worked with Michael Paulus

 http://michaelpaulus.com/home.html

on making the cover come to life.

I pictured the cover as a movie screen

and Mike sketched this idea:

The screen title is based on the old DRACULA

title card (1931) which is also a fitting homage

to one of the book’s characters, Count Misfit.

This is the screen title with the stories listed

as stars in small lettering.

Next, Mike tried out

some curtain designs...

Here’s the final image, note the scrollwork glowing

over the curtains, before they draw open:

This is the title page:

The book spine, two designs:

This is the button I drew

which starts each chapter:

I wanted there to be a campaign button

for the book title…Especially appropriate since

we were putting this book together during

the 2012 US election!

Mike designed the button and

actually ordered one. I’m going to

order more to give away to people.

Would you like one?

I pictured the button laying

in a litter of junkyard relics.

Mike took several beautiful photographs.

Can you find the lump of coal? The sea horse?

Barometer, old stapler (an homage to

my “Prehistoric Stapler” see blog from

Sept 11, 2012), hygrometer, iron horseshoe,

nuts, bolts, camp pocket knife and

Houdini locks?

Here’s the final book jacket design

with help from Susanna Schwacke.

Order your copy from Bird Dog Publishing

today!

http://smithdocs.net/BirdDogy/BirdDogPage.html