[Hitch]

Originally Posted by BookCat

The pink is wrong for a book which tongue-in-cheek satirises feminism. It also limits your market to women (and maybe gay men).

I don't understand your comment:



Surely that's EXACTLY the type of review you want. You don't want it reviewed as a Mills and Boon romance when your aim is wacky humour. Why would you be disappointed by a review which saw your book exactly the same way you do?

I certainly don't understand that comment, at ALL. If you've written an "over-the-top whacky read," then...why would you NOT want people to review it that way? Do you want them to review it as if it's a Michener? Or...???

Moreover, that's not how you've pitched the book, here. There's a VAST difference between, for example, Red Skelton's humor and Quentin Tarantino's. Or watching Lucy stuff her mouth full of chocolates, versus watching Travolta accidentally shoot the guy in the car (PF), or revive Uma Thurman with a hypodermic to the heart. Is this "I Love Lucy," or is it something less slapstick-y?

The feel you're projecting, with the goofy fonts, is at best "I Love Lucy." But you pitched it as more of a humorous, black-humor actioner. Which is it? I honestly don't see ILL running around whacking people.

I think the poop-scoop in her right hand (our left) would be great. Americans would see this as a nod to the Statue of Liberty.

Agreed.

As for the font, maybe a bold version of Tempus Sans.

I'm sorry to disagree with BookCat, but please, Mother of All that's Holy, do NOT use Papyrus or a Papyrus knockoff. It's become the Comic Sans of the last 10 years, and it's horribly and grossly overused, even worse. (I blame James Cameron, but...). Anyone in the biz who sees Papyrus on your cover (or "Tempus Sans") will run like there's no tomorrow. And not TO the book. (Sorry, @BookCat!).

I can't help feeling that you really need to suss what IWS stands for. If you're serious about a cat follow-up, try not to make it species specific - you could write the series making each book relating to a different species, even getting into animal activism.

I agree with this, and more importantly, you're completely missing a huge opportunity for more "humor." You could have a blast with acronyms, for the Society. You can do things like:

ARF: Animal Rescue Feminists
BARF: Brave Animal Rescue Feminists
WARM: Women Animal Rescue Feminists
ROAR: Rescue Animal Operational Revolt
...and so on.

Why on earth would you pass up the opportunity for branding like that? I damn sure wouldn't. How did you come up with "IWS," which isn't even a word, sans an idea of the name of the group?


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