Panel Review for Cover

I never let my own opinion dictate everything, especially about the cover. So I always ask my sisters, some of my best friends, and selected VIPs for their opinion. Untuk cover Sydney Darling ini, saya mendapat pakar baru, kenalan dari KoKi (Kolom Kita / Komunitas Kompas), namanya Pak Janto Marzuki di Stockholm, Swedia. (Panggilnya Pak Yanto, ejaan lama bercampur baru, kayak Dr Dede Sutedja). Pak Janto latar belakangnya keren sekali, tidak heran jika beliau bermata jeli dalam warna dan gambar. Senang sekali bahwa saya sekarang sudah secure one expert for eyeballing my cover design (and future novels' cover design as well).

Sebel sama satu temen, yang ngubernya lama banget baru dibalas 3 poin yang sudah diajukan oleh reviewers lainnya. Percuma lah, tadi saya udah mau ngambek juga, gak bakal kirim autographed copy ke Mr Leo Santana yang sok sibuk!

Kenapa saya bilang begitu? Soalnya reviewers yang lain tuh jauh lebih sibuk dan memegang posisi tinggi di organisasi mereka (seriously!), tapi mereka sama sekali tidak sok-sokan seperti yang namanya Mr Leo Santana yang masih "junior" di kantornya. OK, lesson learnt. Next novel, I won't bother to include him into the panel review for my covers!
Note: Even Dr Dede replied my text message and apologized that he is out of town (means he is abroad) so he can't check his e-mail.

My sister Mayrinna is correct. All the high powered people are always humble...

Anyway, harus inget kirim autographed copies ke teman2 KoKiers sebagai berikut (yang tadi reply atau yang alasannya valid seperti Dr Dede):

1. Suhu Josh Chen - Jakarta
2. Juwita Setiono - Sydney
3. Pak Janto Marzuki - Stockholm
4. Ki Ageng Similikithi (Dr BS) - Manila (sekarang lagi di Quebec, Canada) -- surprise, surprise, Ki actually replied me this morning, with a clear tone of romantism hahahah, as always

Peer Review - Sg based

1. Magdalena Tiopan (ini cocok buat ngetes selera feminin)
   
2. Jemmy Soenjaya (can't imagine the world without the "23 September" mata serangga)
   
3. My sisters: Riana Dewi & Mayrinna Dewi (dua ini wajib baca isi sebelum kukirim ke penerbit hehe, satu mata serangga, satu mata selera pasar)
   
4. Tante Johanna Wulansari (pakar Bahasa Indonesia beneran nih, tadi reply-nya cepet banget oii)
   
5. Pak Harry Suhartanto (penting buat kirim resensi ke koran2 dan media lainnya)
   
6. Dr Dede Sutedja (sekarang lagi out of Sg for a week, if he were here, pasti aku nggak usah begging to know his opinion, unlike what Leo Santana did to me!)

• Leo Santana (last one, won't ask him anymore, peti kupret - aku dianggap apa tuh, sampe harus nguber pendapat dia. Tak sudi lagi di masa depan!)

In the US -- but her siblings are in Sg

1. Venny Cendana (hiks tadi telat kirim, di LA udah jam 11 malem)

Peers based in Indonesia (Yogyakarta tercinta)

1. My best friend Andriani with not unusual eye... (komentar awam kadang emang diperlukan). Either she will stay in Batam or will she go back to Yk?
2. Adik kelas SMP whom I never met but always maintain contact, dik David Sentanu, with more criticism on the blurb hahaha =D