Got email last night from my editor's assistant, who said, more or less, "Oops. I need the art fact sheet for HEART OF STONE by, uh, tomorrow, can you help me out
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Datum: I've never been asked for anything so formal by the way of input.
General experiences:
1. Ace. $editor says, "do you have any preferences?" (Preferences can be vague -- "make this book visually different from the last, so readers don't mistake it for a sequel" [or vice versa] or explicit, but basically all that happens is $editor mentions the author's preferences to the art director, who rules with a whim of iron. (No disasters so far
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I was about halfway through reading this when I thought, "Man, he should post this on his own LJ!" That was really interesting. I kinda had the impression that HQN was Not Like Other Places in how they do cover input, so this backs that up. Thanks for posting!
When I worked as an editorial assistant--although this was back in the late eighties!--one of my jobs was to go through the novels on my editor's list and prepare a memo for the cover artist, outlining the main character(s) and setting. If we got back preliminary art that ignored (or reinterpreted!) some of those guidelines, I pointed the problem(s) out to the art director, and she passed the feedback on to the artist. But although we worked pretty hard to produce covers that were true to the books, I don't recall that we ever asked an author for her or his opinion during the process. :-)
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General experiences:
1. Ace. $editor says, "do you have any preferences?" (Preferences can be vague -- "make this book visually different from the last, so readers don't mistake it for a sequel" [or vice versa] or explicit, but basically all that happens is $editor mentions the author's preferences to the art director, who rules with a whim of iron. (No disasters so far ( ... )
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By the way, I think a lot of us would be interested in the AFS questions.
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Iconlove, btw. :)
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When I worked as an editorial assistant--although this was back in the late eighties!--one of my jobs was to go through the novels on my editor's list and prepare a memo for the cover artist, outlining the main character(s) and setting. If we got back preliminary art that ignored (or reinterpreted!) some of those guidelines, I pointed the problem(s) out to the art director, and she passed the feedback on to the artist. But although we worked pretty hard to produce covers that were true to the books, I don't recall that we ever asked an author for her or his opinion during the process. :-)
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