I had missed The Usurper King when it first came around, and oh, boy is that a case of false flagging! Check out the blurb:
“The Usurper King takes place in an alternate universe where the serial killer Ted Bundy was never apprehended and is now running for president in 2016. Jim, a sufferer of a hybrid computer-biological virus that causes premature aging, tries to pay for his treatments by winning money on the game show ‘Guts!’, which has contestants competitively predict the future by reading animal entrails. As Jim begins to find omens in the entrails of Bundy’s victory, and details of Bundy’s murderous past are uncovered, Jim and another contestant take it upon themselves to stop his ascent to power before it’s too late.”
Tell me how you get any of that from either of the covers!
That’s easy:
“Somehow, Ted became president. This upset Jim so much that he tried out for a game show.”
RK@HM
2 months ago
Looks like Sick Puppies has got both the front and the back covers posted together, with each cover squashed up horizontally to keep the book from being in too “child-friendly” a format (i.e. with the covers as wide as they are tall, or wider).
I had missed The Usurper King when it first came around, and oh, boy is that a case of false flagging! Check out the blurb:
“The Usurper King takes place in an alternate universe where the serial killer Ted Bundy was never apprehended and is now running for president in 2016. Jim, a sufferer of a hybrid computer-biological virus that causes premature aging, tries to pay for his treatments by winning money on the game show ‘Guts!’, which has contestants competitively predict the future by reading animal entrails. As Jim begins to find omens in the entrails of Bundy’s victory, and details of Bundy’s murderous past are uncovered, Jim and another contestant take it upon themselves to stop his ascent to power before it’s too late.”
Tell me how you get any of that from either of the covers!
I’m still trying to figure out how you get from the first sentence of the blurb to the second.
That’s easy:
“Somehow, Ted became president. This upset Jim so much that he tried out for a game show.”
Looks like Sick Puppies has got both the front and the back covers posted together, with each cover squashed up horizontally to keep the book from being in too “child-friendly” a format (i.e. with the covers as wide as they are tall, or wider).