Jan 27 2010

New Cover for Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing

Published by dwsmith at 11:39 pm under Misc, On Writing


Pati Nagle sent me this great public domain picture of a cow that she said would be great to use for a cover for the book Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing, and she nicely offered to do up a cover for me.

I thanked her and said I wasn’t ready to have a cover yet, then got thinking about it, and of course, being a writer, I can waste time like no other human and came up with the following mock-up cover. Thanks, Pati! For the cow and the idea. And thanks to Steve Lewis for the caption idea.

New Sacred Cow post coming in a day or so. Stay tuned.

8 responses so far

8 Responses to “New Cover for Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing”

  1. # Brad R. Torgersenon 28 Jan 2010 at 1:00 am

    “No real cows were harmed in the writing of this blog series…”

  2. # Steve Lewison 28 Jan 2010 at 2:51 am

    This picture actually made me laugh outloud. Am I the only one that thinks the cow has a defiant look on her face?

    “Bring it on, writer boy,” said Elsie the cow. :)

  3. # dwsmithon 28 Jan 2010 at 3:41 am

    Steve, used your idea. Thanks!!!

  4. # Pati Nagleon 28 Jan 2010 at 9:31 am

    Good job, Dean! That wasn’t a waste of time at all. (Now get back to writing!)

  5. # mbaesqon 28 Jan 2010 at 5:15 pm

    LOL, I love the ‘bring it on’ quote! Hm, aren’t sacred cows in India supposed to be white? :-)

    Awesome cover Dean.

  6. # Maryon 28 Jan 2010 at 7:11 pm

    Ah, come on, Dean, no exploding cows?

  7. # dwsmithon 29 Jan 2010 at 12:58 am

    LOL, Mary. That’s a story that not even this last master class heard. Maybe one night at Denise Little workshop.

  8. # Robin Brandeon 29 Jan 2010 at 7:42 pm

    Then there are those of us in the crowd who are vegan . . .

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