Doug Brunt
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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With a font that Rubio would approve of.
Yeah, it gives you a sense of history, turn of the century.
Yes, not the font, but we did.
We got rid of the Romanovs.
Wait, hold on.
Okay, there we go.
That lower right picture of the Romanovs, Tsar Nicholas II and his family who were brutally killed.
We moved that to the back because it seemed like the cover was a little too busy with that on there.
Like from the title to the cover art.
No, I mean, for months and months, my editor and I were going back and forth, like, we're going to solve this over a bottle of wine.
We came up with Engines and Empires.
It's the diesel engine.
And I loved it.
He loved it.
11th hour, they have a sales meeting with the internal S&S team.
Barnes & Noble has a sales team that contributes to this stuff, too.
The CEO, John Karp of Simon & Schuster.
And so I get this call.
We've already printed galleys, like what we have for Nobel.
And it has the Engines and Empires title.