If I ever get inspired I'll see if I can scan them.
Re the covers of the other books, I think the Coalition cover is beautiful and appropriate and accurate. I had a certain amount of choice and input in its design, which I'd never had before, and advised the artist re hair/background etc. I cannot tell you how much I love the picture of Telemakos on the cover of this book--and again, this was the first time anyone but me had ever produced an image of him, so it was...It's a weird feeling to describe. Like looking in a mirror for the first time, or maybe like seeing yourself in a video or hearing yourself on tape. Do I--does Telemakos--really look like that? Well, obviously!
Having said that, I had high hopes for the cover of Sunbird, which was done by the same artist; and I was very disappointed when his first sketches turned up with the exact same face, I mean the exact image, photoshopped straight off the Coalition cover and onto the Sunbird one. So I whined about it, and he changed it, but although the translucent gold and the heat of the cover are very beautiful, I have never liked the vapid, empty expression on T's face.
I know a lot of people really love The Winter Prince, but I think The Sunbird is the best thing I've ever written. I was disappointed by the cover.
You are so right that the original cover of Winter Prince looks like a mummer's play! And to THINK I'd never noticed it. You do know that the book I'm writing is going to be called The Sword Dance, don't you?
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Re the covers of the other books, I think the Coalition cover is beautiful and appropriate and accurate. I had a certain amount of choice and input in its design, which I'd never had before, and advised the artist re hair/background etc. I cannot tell you how much I love the picture of Telemakos on the cover of this book--and again, this was the first time anyone but me had ever produced an image of him, so it was...It's a weird feeling to describe. Like looking in a mirror for the first time, or maybe like seeing yourself in a video or hearing yourself on tape. Do I--does Telemakos--really look like that? Well, obviously!
Having said that, I had high hopes for the cover of Sunbird, which was done by the same artist; and I was very disappointed when his first sketches turned up with the exact same face, I mean the exact image, photoshopped straight off the Coalition cover and onto the Sunbird one. So I whined about it, and he changed it, but although the translucent gold and the heat of the cover are very beautiful, I have never liked the vapid, empty expression on T's face.
I know a lot of people really love The Winter Prince, but I think The Sunbird is the best thing I've ever written. I was disappointed by the cover.
You are so right that the original cover of Winter Prince looks like a mummer's play! And to THINK I'd never noticed it. You do know that the book I'm writing is going to be called The Sword Dance, don't you?