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THE UNCHANGEABLE SPOTS OF LEOPARDS

August 19, 2013 by mybookcover

(Viking, 2013) When Alison Forner’s brilliant cover design for my debut novel The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards first came in to my editor’s desk she sent an email to me and my agent with the subject line, “You guys.” And then, “I have a cover to show you. For your book. For serious.” And that was pretty much the exact same breathless reaction that I had, after bolting up to my wife’s office, where Viking had messengered a copy. (I asked them to send it […]

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TIGERS IN RED WEATHER

August 6, 2013 by mybookcover

(Little, Brown and Company, 2012) When I first started talking book covers with my editor, Judy Clain, I only had a few stipulations: No script, no embossed title, and no pale pink. I think I was having nightmarish visions of the books I’d seen in my youth on the racks at the drugstore—all ripping bodices and women clinging to a swashbuckler’s muscular leg. Yes: the idea of book covers can cause some pretty extreme and unreasonable paranoia. Of course, my […]

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