My Dad writes books. The last one he wrote was published with a special American version with a hard cover. And with a hard cover comes a dust jacket. And with a dust jacket comes a photo and description of the author. Usually publishers try to get a photo of the actual author, but sometimes they just grab a photo of any old person and stick that on instead. So Dad received his copy of the book and low and behold there's some dude who looks nothing like him above his bio. In the photo above you can see on the left the guy they thought was him, and then on the right, after they sold all the wrong ones, the correct photo of him. (No they didn't pull all the dust covers off the stock and replace them, they waited till they all sold out and had to do a reprint.) And apparently no one has any idea at all who the other guy is.
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Tht's hilarious:) Maybe not so much for your Dad..
I reckon the bloke worked at the publishing place and saw it as a chance for his 5 seconds of fame.
You can tell by the "Hi Mum! I'm on a book!" expression on his face.
Too funny.
Sometimes I wish that you could have someone like that at work... some kind of scapegoat so that you can escape recognition if people have a beef with you. Or your books.
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