T-shirt!!!!

If you know me even a little bit, you probably know I’m a huge sucker for swag and paraphernalia of all kinds.  I will buy souvenirs “to be touristy” even when I don’t care about the tourist attraction.  So naturally, as soon as I got my book cover, I needed a souvenir, and what better souvenir than a t-shirt? With MY AWESOME BOOK COVER on it?

The colors didn’t come out quite perfect–that’s what I get for ordering from Zazzle. This is the second shirt I’ve bought from them, and both have had off colors. In fact, the last shirt I’d ordered was supposed to be in black and white, yet it had an orangey smear across it. The orangey smear ended up looking really good on it, though, so I didn’t complain. But on this one you can see that some of the really bright spots turned out green like the shirt:

From Drop Box

Even with a few flaws, though, it’s still really cool. I’m still thrilled to be wearing it right now. Here’s the back, which turned out perfect:

From Drop Box

Has anyone else had problems with Zazzle?

I would love to have t-shirt giveaways and make Renegade X shirts using my own art. There’s a shirt Damien wears at the end of the book that I want to make, plus scenes from the book trailer would be pretty awesome. Who wouldn’t want a shirt of the toilet scene?

Anyway, I happen to need to go to the library today, and I just HAPPEN to be wearing my awesome shirt with my awesome book cover on it. I am hoping a librarian looks at it and goes, “Ooh, what’s THAT?” And then I’ll be all cool like, buff my nails for a sec, then turn and say, “Oh, this? This is just MY BOOK.” Actually, if that situation does come up, I will probably panic and go, “Oh, um, you mean me? Well, this is, um… you see, I got my book cover–my book cover, ’cause I’m an author–and it was so cool… everybody says it’s cool. I mean, I KNOW it’s cool, because it is, and… I’m not self-published, either. Well, you could probably tell that because my cover is so cool, but my publisher is Egmont USA. You have some of their books, but maybe you don’t recognize the name, but they’re REALLY BIG in Europe. Oh, you have heard of them? Well, uh… I’m one of their authors, and this is my book, and it comes out in May, and no, I don’t have any bookmarks or business cards yet… I was focused on this t-shirt… ha… I have a book trailer.” Yeah.