Cory Doctorow likes the duct tape on our cover. Cool. I’ve been a Boing Boing fan for years — was quite a nice surprise to see a familiar image there.
There were some early cover designs of the book that included Post-It Notes. And we were thinking, is there anything less sticky than a Post-It? Isn’t that, in fact, the core value of Post-Its, that they aren’t so sticky? I guess we could have gone that direction and renamed the book: Made to Adhere Lightly.
We also played around with images of gum. Gum sticks, ya know.  One design showed a woman’s foot in a high-heeled shoe, and she had just stepped in a huge wad of gum, and strands of the gum were trailing the heel into the air. It was a cool photo, almost beautiful. And yet the emotional resonance was, um, less appealing. “Our book — it’s like stepping in gum!”
Bless you, duct tape.
You should do a sequel called Made to Slick and could put a can of WD40 on the cover. I have no idea what the book would be about but the cover is a good start.
You are so right, J. It’d be like yin & yang. Made to Slip? Made to Slide?
Here is your cover: http://www.wham-o.com/default.cfm?page=ViewProducts&ProductID=8&Category=1
It is such a strong cover. I love it too. Will your next book have a can of WD40 on it…the other most important tool in my real toolbox!
Yikes, I just read the first comment. I should read all comments so I don’t become redundant. Please spray some WD40 on my last comment or cover it with duct tape.
Great minds think alike. And now we have evidence of a *groundswell* of popularity for the next book… (so long as it has WD40 on the cover)
The best part of the cover is that it is tactile. The raised ridges on the duct tape make it. When I show someone the book, I make sure they “feel” it.