{"id":448,"date":"2023-10-22T19:04:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T02:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/?p=448"},"modified":"2023-10-22T19:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T02:04:45","slug":"hairy-squatter-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/hairy-squatter-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Hairy Squatter Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just got back the final version of the ebook cover I commissioned for my upcoming Harry Potter parody. It&#8217;s called <em>Hairy Squatter and the Scientist&#8217;s Groan<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the premise:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hairy Squatter is a bookish twelve-year-old orphan whose great ambition in life is to become a world-renowned cultural critic. While happily working his way through all three volumes of Karl Marx\u2019s magnum opus, <em>Das Kapital<\/em>, in the bohemian comforts of his Aunt and Uncle Worsley\u2019s garrett, Hairy learns that his flaky billionaire parents have arranged posthumously for him to attend Pigzits Academy of Pseudoscience and Magical Thinking, an elite boarding school for the wealthy technocratic elite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once enrolled at Pigzits, he quickly discovers there\u2019s nothing he can do to get expelled. His folks\u2019 obscene donation to the school\u2019s endowment all but ensures that. Soon enough, the perks of campus life \u2014 not unlike a luxury resort \u2014 start to erode his solidarity with the working classes. Meanwhile, a shadowy figure named Moldywart seeks a potent talisman called the Scientist\u2019s Groan, hidden somewhere on campus. If he gets his grubby redistributive mitts on it, Moldywart could destroy Pigzits and all it stands for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will Hairy stay true to his ideals or join the CEO of Pigzits, Bulbous Stumblesnore, in hunting down Moldywart before he can launch a socialist revolution?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And here&#8217;s the cover:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/hairy-squatter-cover-600px.jpg\" alt=\"Hairy Squatter and the Scientist's Groan by KJ Trolling cover\" class=\"wp-image-449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/hairy-squatter-cover-600px.jpg 600w, https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/hairy-squatter-cover-600px-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/scottdikkers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Scott Dikkers (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">Scott Dikkers<\/a>&#8216; recommendation, I used <a href=\"https:\/\/100covers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"100covers.com (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">100covers.com<\/a>. I think they did a fantastic job!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back the final version of the ebook cover I commissioned for my upcoming Harry Potter parody. It&#8217;s called Hairy Squatter and the Scientist&#8217;s Groan. Here&#8217;s the premise: Hairy Squatter is a bookish twelve-year-old orphan whose great ambition in life is to become a world-renowned cultural critic. While happily working his way through &#8230; <a title=\"Hairy Squatter Cover\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/hairy-squatter-cover\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Hairy Squatter Cover\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-market","category-process","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}