Sunday, February 28, 2010

Coming up with awesome book titles takes practice.

Sometime last year I saw this book cover on a friend's Facebook page:


In Hendersonville, North Carolina, two months ago, while visiting my parents for Christmas, I saw the book's title again, this time on a postcard at a local grocery store called the Fresh Market (possibly the best-smelling place on earth).

Luckily, it's not the only memorable title Lorraine Peterson, an author of books for young (Christian) adults, has come up with over the years:


Answer: He's paranoid about getting mugged, so He never carries cash, but He can light up your life with a lightning strike if you'd prefer.


Answer: Your hair is proof enough that you can't be trusted to do the right thing.


Answer (in the form of bitter, sarcastic rhetorical questions that reveal a little too much about the person writing them): Who ever said God loves forgetful teenagers? Who said God loves teenagers, period? I mean, look at your face—if God loved mankind, why would He create pimples?! And why would He let grown men go bald in their early 20s but still give them pimples in their mid-30s? That's just cruel!

2 comments:

  1. Is that the same guy on the first two covers?

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  2. I don't think so, but the blond guy on "Awesome" does look like John Tesh to me — if he'd been a teenager in the '80s, that is.

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