News and Notices from the Writing Trenches #85…

Item: Don’t judge a book by its cover. Have you seen the proposal for the cover to Harper Lee’s “new book”? It’s terrible. I reviewed Harlan Coben’s book The Stranger and noticed that his book’s cover is poor quality too. Is traditional publishing cutting costs by not paying for a good cover? My sample isn’t very large, of course. As a reader and reviewer, I’ve never judged a book by its cover. My judgement of a cover can only be the subjective opinion of someone who knows little about graphi...