So, like my other publishers, Knox Robinson wants a photo of me, a short biography, and the text for the back of the book jacket, also known as Jacket Copy. I wrote the bio and the jacket copy last night, but I have to get a photo that has a resolution of 300 dpi. They also want some author's endorsement of the book so they can put that in there. (I've seen them on their other books, and it's a good idea.)
DPI is dots per inch, I believe, and that makes the image high resolution so that it can be copied and placed on their website and on the jacket of the book, too.
For the endorsement, I was thinking of contacting a man named Ian Knight, because he's probably the leading authority on the Zulu War, and he even wrote a short piece on John Dunn, which I credit in my book as one of my sources. But he's a strict historian, and my John Dunn book is historical fiction, so I'm not sure he'd be interested in reading it. I would only hope that he would say something nice, but again, being a strict historian, maybe he's the wrong guy to ask. I did put some fictional things in there, so yeah, maybe I should find some historical fiction writers instead.
Nevertheless, things are rolling since I received the contract with the publisher's signature on it, and I said before how important that was to me. I can't wait to see how my KRP books differ from my Melange and Penumbra books. I look forward to hardbound editions for one thing. Can't wait.
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