Raul was first to notice a cover image for U2, A Diary on Amazon:
I checked with Chris at Omnibus (my editor) to see if this is the cover, and the answer, in one word is:
Maybe.
There’s a big publishing industry trade show coming up in London and this is the cover they’re using for the promotional material that will be displayed there. There’s a chance it’ll be the final cover image, too. But also a chance it’ll change.
So, there you have it. Nice find, Raul.
It has. One month since the last post, which was actually published while I was in Santa Clara, California. In the meantime, I’ve also been to:
So, yeah, just a little bit busy with travel. But if you’re curious to know what’s going on with U2, A Diary, here’s what I know:
So, things are moving, albeit somewhat slowly at this point. Because we gave ourselves a lot of lead time between the due date of the manuscript and the expected publishing date, we’re not at all behind schedule or anything like that. I suspect I’ll be posting more in the coming weeks/months as things pick up.
Now you know.
I’m noticing that the Amazon UK sales page for U2, A Diary now lists October 8, 2008, as the publication date. That used to show September 8th. And now the Amazon.com sales page also says October 8th, where previously it didn’t have a date listed.
Yet, just four days ago I checked in with Omnibus about the schedule and Chris (my editor) said, “We are still aiming for a September publication.” I’m going with Chris’ target as the accurate one.
It’s funny — in all the years of doing @U2 news, and trying to get copies of books in advance so we could review them, there was almost never any agreement between the publisher and the book stores (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc.) about when a book would be published. I don’t know enough about the publishing industry to understand why it’s like that….