In Green's Cover

William Ansley · 09 Aug 2000, 22:47 · from whorl-v0011.mbox · original

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From: William Ansley <wansley at warwick.net>
Subject: Re: (whorl) In Green's Cover
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 22:47:08
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>Got the book today and brought it home. And hid it from my houseguest!
>Whoa--that cover! An amalgam of Ben Franklin and Joe Lieberman takes a
>stroll with an octopoidal Highwayman! No, I couldn't face the (at best)
>politely raised eyebrows or (worse) outright snickering that would have
>been my lot had this been openly displayed!
>
>-alga
>

I agree, as I think many, if not all, reading this do. The IGJ cover=20
makes the OBW cover look, well, less bad in comparison.

It would have been very easy to make attractive, elegant and (I would=20
think) inexpensive covers for the three books. Make each book's cover=20
a single photograph, with the title and author superimposed in a=20
contrasting color. For OBW, an aerial view of an empty expanse of=20
ocean; for IGJ, an aerial view of a solid jungle canopy; for RTTW, a=20
star field. It may turn out that my third cover is inappropriate when=20
the book actually comes out and I am sure that no one else will be as=20
fond of these cover ideas as I am, but most of you will probably=20
agree that it would be an improvement.

William Ansley
--=20
William Ansley

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