I couldn’t help but notice that the cover of Roger Kreuz’s new book Irony and Sarcasm features a VERY similar design as my book Free Love – True Stories of Love and Lust on the Internet about online dating published in 2010. It features the same “winky smiley face” emoticon used on my front cover.

(Hey kids: emoticons are icons comprised of keyboard characters such as the “smiley” :-) which preceded what you now know today as emojis. Emojis are way more cool and a lot more versatile than emoticons because there are so many options, while emoticons are limited to keyboard characters. And no one ever made a “meh” movie about emoticons.)

Anyway, they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery so I guess I should be flattered. Maybe it wasn’t even on purpose. I don’t know. I guess I’ll chalk it up as an unexpected coincidence. At least he used a different font.

I just found it a bit ironic.

That said, I shouldn’t really complain too much since I borrowed my book cover design idea from the movie Pi.

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