My copy of What If? A Chronicle of What Might Have Been, edited and illustrated by Sligo illustrator Annie West, arrived a couple of days ago and what a gorgeous and funny book it is, and I’m not just saying that because I’m one of the contributors! The majority of the contributors are Irish writers and so there’s a lot of Irish history “What Ifs”, for example one involving Éamon de Valera and one involving Michael Collins. But there are some pop culture ones too. I was excited to see that someone had written a Robert Johnson “What If”.
Months ago, she reached out and asked for my pitches of what I wanted to write about. I had a bunch of ideas, sent them all to her. She picked the one that ended up appearing in the book. The one she picked feels like it was meant to be.
And her ILLUSTRATION for it. I can’t get over it.
LOOK. AT. HIM.
But you’ll have to buy the book to find out what happened if Elvis had lived.
