{"id":653,"date":"2013-02-21T18:10:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T18:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/?p=653"},"modified":"2013-03-25T16:58:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T16:58:16","slug":"word-on-the-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":"Word on the Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My novel &#8216;Word on the Street&#8217; will be out in paperback and ebook in September, published by Cillian Press. They are a new independent based in Manchester and they&#8217;re a great team. I was allowed in on a meeting with the cover designer, which is probably every writer&#8217;s dream.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cover-word-on-the-street1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-665\" title=\"cover word on the street\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cover-word-on-the-street1-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cover-word-on-the-street1-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cover-word-on-the-street1-1024x753.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cover-word-on-the-street1.jpg 1154w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> It was so interesting to be part of a meeting between the three parts of the process &#8211; writer, publisher and designer &#8211; all working together and looking at things from the different angles. &#8216;Word on the Street&#8217; is about homelessness, life writing and dermatology. It&#8217;s dark comedy, and that was one of the hardest elements to convey in a cover. We didn&#8217;t want it to look like a crime or mystery novel, even though it is both of those, and we didn&#8217;t want it to look like a romance, even though it is. I&#8217;m looking at book covers with new eyes now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My novel &#8216;Word on the Street&#8217; will be out in paperback and ebook in September, published by Cillian Press. They are a new independent based in Manchester and they&#8217;re a great team. I was allowed in on a meeting with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/?p=653\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,1],"tags":[118,119,120,21],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-novels","category-uncategorized","tag-book-cover","tag-design","tag-homelessness","tag-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}