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A book by its cover

Laura Resnick has a really great 5 part article on covers, how they came to be, with examples, and on the whole mysterious process. A very good read, peppered with quotes from Irene Gallo and other art directors, artists, and authors.

Meanwhile, my computer just arrived, so I’m getting nothing done. Off to go unpack it and install it.

Filed under the topic On Writing on March 1st 2007 at 2:24 pm. You can subscribe to the RSS feed for this entry to keep track of comments. You can also use to trackback.

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1. spyscribbler on Mar 1st, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Oh, man! I’m jealous! New computers are SO much fun! Share every detail! Tell us how squeaky-clean fast it is! How pretty it is!
Do you name your computers?
2. Steve Buchheit on Mar 2nd, 2007 at 11:06 am
Yes, what’s the name? I mean, if we all can’t get a shiny new one, at least we can share the experience when one does.
3. Tobias Buckell on Mar 2nd, 2007 at 11:13 am
It’ll be a videoblog next week, I ran out of time so I posted the interview video blog, but you’ll get to see it on Monday or Tuesday.

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