I might have said this before, but if there’s one thing more exciting than having a single book published, it’s having a series of books published with matching covers. Covers are so important – even when, as I am these days, you’re primarily in the digital market. So I feel particularly fortunate that with Farrago, […]
The problem with having goals is that they’re constantly changing. When you start off as a writer, your first target tends to be something like “get a short story published somewhere”, and then once that’s out of the way, you move on to “get a short story published somewhere nice.” And when that’s ticked off […]
Obviously – I mean OBVIOUSLY – you should never judge a book by its cover, but I’m prepared to make an exception here. You are quite welcome – no, you’re positively ENCOURAGED – to judge THE TRUTH ABOUT ARCHIE AND PYE by its cover, because the cover (by Mark Swan, aka Kid Ethic) is ABSOLUTELY […]
I once went to a talk given by the chief book-buyer for WHSmith Travel, where he talked about his process for choosing which books to stock in his shops (the branches of WHSmith you see in railway stations, airports and motorway service stations). First of all he looked at the cover, then at the blurb […]