
Although the main content of
Blasphemy! The Musical is complete, I've made the decision not to rush the release of the book because I want to add even more goodies.
Firstly, I have to get the back cover just right, since it's the second thing, after the front cover, people will see, and is the thing which will help to sell the book. People really do judge books by their covers, so the blurb on the back has to be just right. So for the past 3 days (on top of the weeks of ideas I've been jotting down as they occurred to me) I've been working on that. I think I've finally nailed it, subject to looking good on the proof copy.
Next: illustrations. The cover picture for The Atheists Are Revolting! was a free, public-domain photo of the Earth, provided by NASA, but I wanted to spend some money on getting better quality photos for the book, hence the 'eyes' photo and a great looking cartoon for the back cover. However, I've been toying with the idea of adding pictures inside the book, just to jazz things up a little! So 'Pole Dancers In The Mosque' should have (what else?) a photo of a pole dancer... and so on.
Adding illustrations is going to take a while, if only because I will have to find, pay for, edit and insert the images into the book. I have 7-10 days in mind for that job, so I hope you'll be patient. I promise it will be worth the wait, and of course if I'm done before then you will be the first to know.
Right now I'm waiting for delivery of a proof copy of the book (minus illustrations) so that I can check the layout. And I have a lot of work to do on this web site because it's very much a sing-along book - and you will of course need to have a central place to visit to find the original songs so that you can sing (or maybe hum!) along with my blasphemy-laden lyrics.
So let me go and work - I'm on a tight schedule here folks!