Are you really this dumb, or are you purposely trying your best NOT to sell paperbacks? a solid black cover with the word MEG stacked - again in black. Sickened when I saw Bantam's mass market mistake. Mass Market : If I was disappointed with the hardback, I was utterly dissatisfied and But no one knows what or who MEG refers to.' Naturally, they ignored me. The in-your-face scary sharp teeth and naked woman - it's now considered corny - and corny is a something that can kill sales.' 'Okay, and that might have worked if the title was TEETH or FEAR - something that described a shark five times larger than a Great White. Trust us - booksellers prefer classic cover art where less is actually more. a trail of blood? Uh.hello? Where's the damn shark? I was lukewarm at best about the dust cover's shallow underwater image of. What did BDD's art department create for the MEG hardback? In a word. Twenty-five years earlier, BDD had published Peter Benchley's best-seller, JAWS, a novel whose iconic cover art featuring a toothy Great White Shark ascending beneath a tastefully rendered (pun intended) naked woman certainly kept bathers close to shore. Published by Bantam-Doubleday-Dell (BDD).įormat: Hardback (1997) and mass-market paperback (1997).įLASHBACK 27 years to Winter-Spring of 1997. Purchase a set or Volume-1 or the entire set in June and your 7 Volumes will be signed by moi.

MEG: LEGACY can only be pre-purchased at the store. ONLY 5,000 SETS ARE BEING PRINTED - guaranteeing their increased value. These books are big and built-to-last, bound in the best faux-leather (available in your choice of 3 different color schemes), the outer pages dipped in silver or gold leaf. As the author and creator of The MEG series, there were for unique formats I was really excited about experiencing: (in the order they were brought to market):īefore the review, I want to quickly mention that on Janupre-sales for Volume One of a true 7-Volume Collector's Edition set of MEG novels, Angel of Death novellas, the six comics that make the Graphic Novel (reviewed below), the MEG prequel (now written into a 25th anniversary edition of MEG) officially went on sale on January 31, 2023.

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