{"id":370,"date":"2007-06-01T11:17:16","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T11:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchbooks.com\/invis\/wordpress\/?p=370"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:21:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:21:27","slug":"steal-this-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/2007\/06\/steal-this-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Steal This Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"cloud_atlas_500.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/cloud_atlas_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" \/><br \/>\nThis is an illustration I did a few months ago for Publisher&#8217;s Weekly &#8220;Soapbox&#8221; column. This is a regular feature where authors, editors and other publishing figures get a chance to rant, rave or tell a personal anecdote about the industry.<br \/>\nThis installment of the column was a particularly painful (yet funny) account by the author Liam Callanan who had just published his book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FCloud-Atlas-Liam-Callanan%2Fdp%2F0385336950%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1180712332%26sr%3D1-3&#038;tag=jonkeeganillu-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">&#8220;The Cloud Atlas&#8221;<\/a>. Thinking he had coined a clever and unique title, he was more than disappointed when he found that his own publisher had just released David Mitchell&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FCloud-Atlas-Novel-David-Mitchell%2Fdp%2F0375507256&#038;tag=jonkeeganillu-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">&#8220;Cloud Atlas&#8221;<\/a> (one of my favorite books in the past few years by the way). Worse yet, Mitchell&#8217;s &#8220;Atlas&#8221; went on to receive heaps of praise and critical acclaim (even a breathless mention on a soap opera). This all lead to confusion at the book store, and misguided letters to the author.  He took it all in good spirits though, and had a good sense of humor about the whole affair, noting how this has happened to many authors in the past.<br \/>\nSo for the illustration, I imagined Callanan engaging on a guerrilla street campaign to alter the promotional campaign for Mitchell&#8217;s book, and co-opting it for his own title.<br \/>\nSee more of my work for <a href='http:\/\/jonkeegan.com\/client_list.php?th=2&#038;client=Publishers+Weekly' target='new '>Publisher&#8217;s Weekly here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an illustration I did a few months ago for Publisher&#8217;s Weekly &#8220;Soapbox&#8221; column. This is a regular feature where authors, editors and other publishing figures get a chance to rant, rave or tell a personal anecdote about the industry. This installment of the column was a particularly painful (yet funny) account by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/1598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}