Two similar covers, two very different books. The power (or pestilence) of genre.

There’s nothing guaranteed to get an author worked up as a chat about book covers. We all have quite fixed ideas of how our book should look but sometimes a publisher thinks differently and we bow to their knowledge of the market. They usually do know best!

As a reader too, I’m increasingly aware of the impact of a cover, or a cover and title together. As a native of Fife, I could never have resisted Evie Wylde’s The Bass Rock despite knowing nothing about it until I wandered into a book...