Derry, Northern Ireland

Derry, Northern Ireland
A book I'm working on is set in this town.

Sunday, October 20, 2024

Cover needed.

I've been digging through Shutterstock for a potential cover for HNH...and my ideas are just not working. I was thinking of this guy in front of a burnt out background but that seems kind of...nothing. And he looks Latino, not Irish.

I do still like the image I first came up with, of the young man between two buildings, but it seems no one ever took the photo so I can give no attribution nor license it from them. And I'm leery of doing that.

When I rewrote The Playboy of the Western World into a western, I called it The King of the Cowboys. Just a title, right? You can't copyright a title. No problem there.

Except...when I won Best Screenplay at the Houston International Film Festival, Roy Rogers' estate learned of it and let me know it had been trademarked for him, and him alone. So I was forced to change it to The Cowboy King of Texas.

Not nearly as good.

I don't want a repeat.

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