{"id":366,"date":"2009-03-09T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T08:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=366"},"modified":"2009-03-08T20:58:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T04:58:41","slug":"covering-my-latest-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"Covering My Latest Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Troubleshooting
\nHere’s my latest book! It’s a fat one: Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All-In-One Desktop Reference For Dummies<\/em>. Sometimes even I don’t get the entire title correct. In fact, this is probably the first time I actually did get the title correct.
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\nThe book is something. It took a long time to write, plus I had to produce and star in a series of videos that appear on the DVD. That was kinda fun, but one fun thing that didn’t make it in the book, or more precisely on<\/em> the book, was my favorite cover.<\/p>\n

If you look at the cover, above, you’ll see a typical and boring picture of a computer. Actually, it looks like cheesy placeholder art. I mean, for a publisher that prides itself in books “for the rest of us” and books written with an edgy personality, they couldn’t have come up with a more dull cover image.<\/p>\n

It’s not that the publisher didn’t have a chance to do a good cover. They had me going for a while: They wanted me to take a picture of myself for the cover image. Here is the image I submitted:<\/p>\n

\"thumb50\"<\/p>\n

Well, actually, that’s one of four images I submitted, but it was the one they liked best. They liked it, except for one small item, which you’ll discover in a moment.<\/p>\n

The image didn’t make the cover, though it does appear on the Amazon web page<\/a> for the book. Here is the modified version, which the publisher approved:<\/p>\n

\"healthypc\"<\/p>\n

Can you see the difference? Yes, the “approved” photo is cropped. What’s cropped out is a bottle of Jack Daniels, which I feel is one of the vital components of a PC troubleshooter’s arsenal. Still, according to my editor, the For Dummies<\/em> line and Wiley (the publisher) does not condone putting alcoholic beverages on the covers of their book.<\/p>\n

At least that’s what they told me.<\/p>\n

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