New book cover! Yea or ney?

Well, what do you think? I initially thought the cover would be just words with no dominant feature. Then I sent the manuscript to the printer and the woman who does the covers came up with this.

She said it’s me parachuting into hell.

Sure, it appeals to my insatiable ego. But this is all about marketing. Will a picture of me on the cover sell more books than a book without a picture of me on the cover?

Maybe one with a picture of me from 1987 when for three weeks in May, I was a dead ringer for male model Fabio. True, it was just three weeks, but, oh, my, those three weeks!

This picture? It looks like I was falling so fast most of my hair blew off.

Who needs a picture of that?

But that’s why this is a bootleg edition. Just fifty copies. If the feedback is less than positive, I’ll go with the stark, wordy version. Or maybe I’ll just photoshop in an old picture of Fabio from back in 1987 …

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This week’s podcast skews toward medical. Check it out right here.

Today’s theme … Hell & skydiving (7 Hells/0 skydiving)

• I’d like to know the first words of souls arriving in Hell when their last words on Earth were, "Goodbye cruel world!”

• People say "not a snowball’s chance in hell,” like they know forecast. In my hell, there will be tons of snow.

• When even the mundane are deemed worthy of demonization Hell itself becomes pedestrian.

• I’m such an optimist that I hope if I do go to hell, it's in a hand basket. We could picnic!

• When Satan really gives someone hell does it torment the soul or is it just considered a standard real estate deal?

• I have to imagine the swear box in Hell is always full, but what sorts of public improvement projects get the proceeds?

• We live in a time when being right or being wrong matters less than always having someone to blame when it all goes to hell.

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Randooms …

• I wonder how long it'll be before the number of earthlings living in space outnumber the number of earthlings living on earth.

• Beer drinkers who believe their bladders are half empty should be called pissimists.

• Does it make me practical or cheap when I take wife, daughters, 16 & 10, to Olive Garden and ask the waitress for separate checks?

• News that airline service "going down hill" feels like prophesy. I worry to save money, planes will soon travel on the ground.

• Given their cost-cutting insistence on ridding flights of all frills, planes will soon be plains.

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