Cover scan + general update

OK, I forgot to scan the real book... It's pocket size, very light. I have sent it to Pak Janto Marzuki in Stockholm - Sweden yesterday and my aunt in Hong Kong... I am meeting Dr Budiono San... (Ki AS darling) this Friday night, after his conference opening in Singapore (save postage)... and hopefully Juwita in Sydney on the last week of November (save postage).

Oh yeah, I hope Dee (my best friend who was just married last weekend) does not forget to collect this novel in our best friend's home in Jakarta (they live in nearby neighbourhood).

Magda has finished reading. And after our discussion, she knows that I always write a super woman character with my good values -- this is something to sell to the media, Pak Harry once told me. He felt that most of the time, I was not selling this good point of my writing style.

Pak Harry is arranging my interview with Aditya FM, a radio in Pekanbaru latest by next week.
Hore, akhirnya wawancara radio lagi...
My meeting with Femina magazine was cancelled because of traffic jam and flood last Monday in Jakarta highway... Iya tol macet total n jalan ke bandara banjir, jadi perlu 3 jam dari kantor Femina ke Soekarno-Hatta, jadi diundur Des pas aku ke Jakarta lagi...

scan of front cover

scan of back cover

Hiksssss

Covernya... duh, if I can go back to the past... I will paste the old one + change the blurb with the new one... Tapi sayang udah telanjur naik cetak.

Relieved!

Yeah, walau desain cover awal sudah difilmkan, tadi masnya setuju buat memfilmkan desain revisi agar lebih menarik saat novel ini dipajang di toko buku. Kesan pertama harus menggoda, itu prinsip saya ;) Pokoknya harus lebih selling dan menarik perhatian ("appealing") dari buku-buku lainnya.

*Strategic in action*

Duhhh...

aduh mbak... kemaren pas aku pulang, kayaknya udah difilmkan... gimana dunk? duh...

That one line is AN OUCCCHHHH. Moga-moga masih bisa diperbaiki...

PS: Covernya mann, kesan pertama dari sebuah buku... font-nya "bermasalah"... warnanya bagus yang belakang... Terus blurb-nya harus diganti lebih pendek dengan font lebih kecil... Ah, besok deh, will check again with Cupid.

Blurb, rewritten

I think the current one is definitely too long. This one is better :D

Dua lamaran pernikahan dalam satu malam. Hanya satu yang dipilih. Ketika badai rumah tangga menerpa, kehadiran pria yang dahulu tidak dipilih, membuat Kumalasari berharap diberi kesempatan untuk membaca ulang buku kehidupannya. Ia penasaran bagaimana jika dirinya memilih jalan yang berbeda, apakah akhir cerita akan berbeda? Ataukah tetap sama karena memang ada apa yang disebut dengan takdir? Dalam suatu kecelakaan, Kumala melihat dirinya lima tahun yang lalu dan lima tahun mendatang. Dan semuanya tidak pernah sama lagi…

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Two wedding proposals in one night. Only one was chosen. When the marriage is on the rock, the presence of the other man who was not chosen, makes Kumalasari hope that she is given a chance to re-read her life book. She is curious what if she chose the different path, will the story end differently? Or will it end the same because there is a thing called fate? In an accident, Kumala sees herself five years ago and the next five years. And everything is no longer the same...

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
   

Cover (first look)

Pagi ini saya terima comment di friendster saya

anita
Posted 07/29/2008 11:25 am
makasi ya mbak...manusia kan punya tugas yang harus diselesaikan dalam hidupnya... jadi tidak cukup hanya mencari pelarian. toh cinta tidak bisa dicopy paste... ^_*oia, covernya lupa gak tak bawa, besok ya mbak tak kirim file jpg-nya...tapi gak pake barcode...

Lalu ketika saya sibuk berdiskusi projek dengan kolega yang sedang di Jakarta, Anita (editor saya di Cupid) mengirim e-mail...

from kisah cupid
to Yunisa
date Jul 29, 2008 12:28 PM

mbak,
ini covernya...

nita
Jl. Wahid Hasyim Gg. Menur No. 75
Condong Catur, Depok, Sleman, Jogja 55283
Telp. 0274 487 032

Jadi hari ini saya harus melakukan jejak pendapat (survey) ke teman-teman dan adik-adik tentang cover-nya sebelum meng-ACC ke Anita. Satu soal font sinopsis dan font nama saya. Lalu soal warna yang kurang catchy / konsisten. Jadi sementara, saya belum bisa memasang di sini original cover nya, walau saya lumayan suka hihihi.