![]() I wanted to have as much input as possible, because, well, it was my book, after all, and I knew it better than anyone, right? I wanted it to make some noise, to drown out the other novels around it. I wanted it to whet a reader’s curiosity. I wanted mine to reflect the novel I wrote, and to be bold, imaginative, and attention-grabbing. “But if you had to choose one,” he asked, “which one would it be?”Īll writers-and I am no exception-have fairly strong ideas about the design of their covers. I saw each iteration of his cover, which arrived by FedEx every couple of days. Mostly, though, he talked about his novel’s cover, which he never went anywhere without, as if it were some kind of talisman. ![]() Every night at dinner, he sat down beside me and told me how many pages he’d rewritten that day, how his editorial process was going, and how much buzz he was already getting. ![]() Many years ago, while a guest at a writing colony, I met an excitable writer who was worried about his debut novel. ![]()
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