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The Walrus likes Lost in Translation
I’ve been released from heck: The Walrus likes Lost in Translation!.
My favorite quote from her post:
You’ve really got to hand it to an author who can make you rather like a creature with tentacles around his beaked face who engages in Realpolitik.
I think that should go on the paperback cover.
Speaking of which, I couldn’t agree more about the cover art for the hardcover: The Walrus calls it “dreadful,” I usually just say, “well, that’s not quite how I saw it…” which is being-nice author-speak for “Blecch.” The paperback cover, however, is terrific. That is pretty much how I saw it.
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No say whatsoever, as a rule. The only exception for me was Spirit Singer, which, because it was an ebook/POD original, I actually commissioned my own cover art from Ronald Chironna. In that case I was so happy with the result I bought the original artwork!
I take it the author doesn’t get much say in what goes on the cover. Unless you’re OSC or Tom Clancy or somebody like that.