Did a lot of brainstorming on the tagline for Superego. The one we used actually came from my editor, Adam Bellow.
“Can a genetically engineered psychopath grow a conscience, get the girl, and save the galaxy? Two out of three ain’t bad.”
I think it’s pretty great — thought, arguably, Rico doesn’t accomplish any of those things by the end of the book.
Still, I thought I had some good other ideas for taglines. Here’s some I came up with.
ALTERNATE SUPEREGO TAGLINES
He’s become a hero. He’s fallen in love. For a sociopathic, genetically engineered killer, it’s been a bad day.
He’s a sociopath. He’s a killer. He’s not the worst thing out there.
In a universe of thugs, murderers, and terrorists, he’s one of them.
He was born without a conscience, but does he have a soul?
Born without a conscience. Genetically engineered to be a killer. In other words, he’s got a bit of a social problem.
Rico had a happy, simple life as a sociopathic, genetically engineered, intergalactic hitman, but then something had to mess it up.
All he wants is to go back to his old life of killing for money.
Love. Morality. Companionship. These were the nuisances Rico had avoided. Until now.
Just because he’s a remorseless killing machine doesn’t mean he has to be the bad guy.
He might be a sociopathic, genetically engineered killer, but he’s still trying to grow as a person.
She’s a rogue cop. He’s a psychopathic, interstellar hitman pretending to be a rogue cop. Love’s complicated.
Interstellar hitman. Psychopath. Hero?
Genetically engineered to be a psychopath, why would he choose to be a hero?
Love is complicated. Killing is simple.
He used to be such a content psychopath.
Just because he’s a psychopath doesn’t mean he has to be the bad guy.
Kill the right people, they mistake you for a hero.
Love makes you crazy, but he’s already a psychopath.
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Anyway, as always, buy my book. It’s gotten a good sales start and made it into the top 100 science fiction on Amazon, and hopefully I can keep it going. So read it, tell everyone about it, write a review on Amazon, and I’ll keep working on the next novel.
Alternate tag line:
He’s a sociopath, doesn’t care if he kills innocents, has no feelings for others, hates society in general and believes all others are beneath him….huh? What? No, no, no! I’m talking about Rico NOT Obama! Jeeeeze!
Who’s the cat that won’t cop out
When there’s danger all about
Rico!
Right on
We’ll save that one for the movie theme song.
With apologies to a comedian whose name escapes me, “Hey, I might be a psychopath, but I’m not crazy!”
I am going to have to buy a copy of “Superego”. I remember when you were putting it up on the website/forum for writes waaaaaaaaaaay back when and really liked the story then. Curious to see how the story has evolved. You could title the sequel “Accidental Hero”. Now if I can just wrestle my e-reader away from my daughter…
Good alternate tag line for it would be:
“The story of a boy, a girl, and a universe.”
Wyrmlaf,
I thought I made it perfectly clear that, yes, you will have to buy a copy.
“Get off my
planetsolar systemgalaxyuniverse.”Shut up, DONNER!! Just SHUT UP!!
Hwy93,
One of my regrets is that storywise there was no way to get Morrigan in there sooner than the half way mark.
So basically you are saying I should actually buy this ebook, rather than my usual find it for free on the newsgroups?
“if you don’t buy this book, we’ll kill this psychopath.”