Here's one of the cards I created for my book, The Card. It's about a man who picks up cards he finds on the street, believing that they hold clues to a secret message. Here, S. Prince translates to Prince S. (Princess). There is in fact no such racing driver, no such card series and no such cigarette company. All the cards will be invented specially for the book.
For those of you who are already waiting at your local bookstore, I should tell you that publication of The Card has been put forward to April 2012, so you'll have to wait there a bit longer. Everyone agrees it is a better time to publish than Christmas. I'm still writing it, but it's nearly there now. Here are some rough page layouts I did to show my editor how I think it might look.
GRAHAM RAWLE is a London-based writer and collage artist. His ‘Lost Consonants’ series ran weekly in the Weekend Guardian for 15 years. He has produced other regular series for The Observer, Sunday Telegraph Magazine and The Times.
Among his published books are the Wonder Book of Fun, Lying Doggo, and Diary of an Amateur Photographer. His collaged novel, Woman’s World, created entirely from fragments of found text earned wide critical acclaim. His reinterpretation of The Wizard of Oz won 2009 Book of the Year at the British Book Design Awards. His most recent book, The Card, was shortlisted for the 2013 Writers Guild award for fiction.
Graham lectures and exhibits internationally. He teaches on the MA Sequential Design/Illustration and MA Arts and Design by Independent Project courses at the University of Brighton.
