Logo / Book Cover

A bit belatedly, I want to credit my wife Louise with the awesome illustration and logo. I thought it would be cool to share the story of it.

At one point in the novel Our Pal Levi, there is a hamburger with a foil wrapper and a logo on it. (To find out more, you'll have to read the story).

I thought it would be cool to use the logo as the cover of the book. (The text on the logo in the book is different, but the picture is the same).

I had a vision in my head, but I can't illustrate much beyond stick figures. And as it turns out, my beautiful wife knows how to do graphic design and illustration.

I made a couple of crude drawings with my ideas on them, and Louise took them and turned them into the happy robot grill cook you see in the logo.

She did an excellent job, and I got to pay for all her hard work with my husband's discount (i.e. I took her out to Piatto's, her favorite Italian restaurant in Saudi). I think I got a pretty good deal :)

Here are the pictures so you can see the beginning and final products:

Creation of the blog

Our Pal Levi is my first novel, which I finished recently. (More about the book later).

Currently I'm in the process of getting it to publication. I'm trying the route of traditional publishers first, because they have a lot of marketing and production infrastructure already in place.

However, if that falls through, then down the road a bit I'll self-publish. It's more work that way, but the book is great and I know people will enjoy it when they get to read it.

In the meantime, I decided to do a little marketing of my own. I made this blog and some other stuff (more on those later). I'll put information about the book here, along with news and anything else I think people might be interested in.

Finally, I want to say thank you to my friends and family who have supported and encouraged me over the years. And I want to especially thank my wife (a.k.a. the best writing group partner ever) for her great advice and feedback as I was writing the story.

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