TBT: Intro to LRK
|September 11, 2014|
This Throwback Thursday brought to you by Bantam Books. Bantam (now a division of Penguin Random House, aka the Randy Penguin) showed me the love from the very beginning, with the mass market paperback for A Grave Talent forming one third of a summer special in 1995, along with Mary Willis Walker and John Straley. They did T-shirts, bookmarks, a dump (one of those tall display units for bookstores), and a whole packet of things for bookstores. But best of all was the illustration they commissioned from Edward Gorey:
Ah, good days.
Love the illustration. Good days, indeed; so many good bookstores then. The Russell series could make a splendid Masterpiece series.
It seems that publishers did more for their authors in those days!
While I totally love that illustration, I can’t see that it really…fits A Grave Talent. My brain immediately went to A Letter of Mary.
Ah Edward Gorey, he was such an interesting artist. I flew all the way to massechusets to go to his house (now a museum) The Unstrung Harp, is a hiarious bit of truth about the writing world.