The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide

Pretty exciting news if you ask me.

Here’s the final version of the artwork that will appear on the cover of The LEGO Builder’s Guide:

The actual details of how this particular design came to be are pretty interesting. It is a classic tale of an original idea being proposed and quickly rejected. Then a second idea coming about almost completely by accident. But maybe I’ll save that tale for another day. For now, I hope you enjoy the cover art.

Email me with your comments. I’d love to know what you think.

Allan

I got word today that the final version of the cover art for the book should
be available soon. Stay tuned, I’ll post the image once I have it.

Allan

In an email a few days ago I mentioned to my copy editor that I was still on a dial-up internet connection. The chapters and images from the book get zipped up but even then the files are still often quite large and sometimes seem to take forever to send out over the modem. She replied back with this short anecdote that I thought was really funny. So with her permission, I’m reposting it here:

Yeah, dial-up is a pain, isn’t it? I live in a place so rural that some cows
knocked over the telephone lines and destroyed my Internet connection/office
phone line yesterday. The phone technician came to apologize for my
neighbor’s lack of cow control. He said that while he was trying to fix the
line, the bull was attacking the back of his truck!

So the next time you can’t send an email… look outside and see if the reason is roaming around your neighbourhood.

Allan