Almost There with the Cover...
Added 2022-09-09 09:46:03 +0000 UTCThe publisher works with a designer in Brazil who has done a little over 20 versions of this cover, and as you can probably see my first and last name needs a space, so that it's not only clear but that the Y moves a smidgeon to the right and will look more centered. I feel like I'm back in that fussy detailed mode I never like to be in, but for whatever reasons on each version the designer seems to have missed a small detail or two and then I feel like the bad guy pointing it out. At the same time I am appreciative of being back with a small press, when I was with Bloomsbury I was given maybe 6 or 7 choices at most, but the quality of the graphic application was higher. On the otherhand, knowing what I wanted and sketching it for the designer, which prompted him to do versions that were a jump away from it (maybe he was giving himself more work by not trying my sketch first!) makes me feel like if it doesn't sell I will have no one to blame but myself. Though critically acclaimed, none of my books were considered commercial, while Dive came closest as it was on the road to a movie with 3 different fancy directors attached. All 5 (hardcover/paperback versions) had tasteful arty covers. This one my kid thinks "it's the kind of book you would see in the airport" though she likes it and had many tweaking suggestions which appear on this version, and I told her that I want to be in the airport! I don't see that happening with a small press, but then thinking small gets you small. Miracles do happen : )
LOVE from Montpellier, France!
