Well, you recall that, earlier this summer, my publisher was fiddling with designs for the paperback version of Hannibal and Me, and you guys had some input.
I now see that the paperback is up on Amazon and on Penguin’s website (Penguin owns Riverhead), though it won’t be released until February 5, 2013 (13 months after the hardcover was released).
If you compare the actual to the earlier designs, you see that
- the helmet has changed (become more fearsome) and
- the “Us” in the subtitle has moved up one line, because it had caused such offense in its previous position.
Hannibal and Me: life lessons from history 
All I want is to be able to look in the mirror in my final hour and say to myself, “You’ve made a difference in this world!”
And now you can!
NICE! Looks Very Cool To Me!
Very Cool, Indeed! 🙂
-B.
Glad it works. I’ll pass it on. Thanks!
Having followed this book’s gestation through your blog, I still do not understand why there is such a delay in the release dates. I suppose there is strategy, right? I will be interested to see how the paperback version sells as opposed to the hardback. I’m still going to cart my hardback version over to Germany someday to have it autographed. Should have jumped on that one when you were still in California. 🙂
” I suppose there is strategy, right?”
Guffaw.
Yes, there might be. Or perhaps not at all. I recall asking about that, a few times over the years. If so, I couldn’t get anybody to explain it to me.
Get ready, Cheri. You’ll publish too, sooner or later. Once that process starts, I’ll be checking in on your blog throughout, to divine the … strategy. 😉
Congratulations!
Thanks, Gia.
Congratulations!! The fearsomeness of the helmet puts everything else into perspective and I withdraw all previous objections!
And there we are: down in New Zealand, they now shudder at my helmet. I can now savor my morning coffee.