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November 08, 2005
Cover Story
One thing you don't realize as a first-time author is how much of your time will be consumed in agony over the cover design of your book. It's total guess-work--on your part and on the publisher's--and for the last month I've been fretting over what the cover of the paperback of "The Lost Night," due out next summer, will look like.
Even best-selling authors aren't immune from the trials and tribulations of cover design. Po Bronson, a fixture here on the SF literary scene and the author of "What Should I Do With My Life?," is about to come out with a new book about family. He took the extraordinary step of polling more than 1,000 of his readers about possible cover designs, and then narrating the whole process here. I'm in awe of his tenacity, and feeling wearied just thinking about all the work he must have put into this. In the end I think he got the right design.
Now back to fretting about the paperback.
Posted by Rachel at November 8, 2005 11:44 AM
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