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[wordrobe]

Book covers.

They shouldn’t matter as much as they do I suppose, and yet...

There is something intensely satisfying about a book beautifully bound (sounds vaguely BDSM-like. . . literary bondage perhaps?) and wrapped in a worthy cover.

The newer trade paperback edition of Little, Big for instance finally has a cover to match the fascination

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[undinesprite]

I'm amazed at how often a publisher has taken a fabulous story and slapped some lame coverart on it. Because we do judge books by their covers. When I had the bookstore, I remember reading studies about all the things that influence someone's bookchoice and coverart was always either the first or second factor.

Kinuko Craft's detailed and dreamy art is the perfect choice for Patricia McKillip's lyrical and spare prose. I love the coverart that Thomas Canty creates for the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series. Love the Dillons artwork for Garth Nix's Sabriel/Lirael/Abhorsen series.

I want Lord of Light to be given a rocking good cover but sadly, I don't think it's ever going to happen. Actually, I don't think his books ever got fabulous art.

Pervy boi, book bondage, indeed!

[wordrobe]

I sometimes think that each publisher has 2 people to design their covers, and one of those is an intern. And you can ALWAYS tell which cover got handed to the intern.

I hadn’t thought much about it before, but you’re right, I don’t think Roger Zelazny books ever had good covers. In a way it’s amazing he was as popular as he was with those covers. I guess he had to be a good writer if he wanted to sell anything!

Pervy??