Do I have any input on the cover art? Not usually. Sometimes I'm shown what amounts to be the final decision and I'm supposed to say, "Great, I love it." I usually do. I wish I'd had more say on the art of Hell's Bay. It shows a part of the Everglades that is filled with cypress trees. True, there are cypress swamps within the Everglades. But not any around where I was setting the novel. Is that too picky?
They have to allow you more artistic license when it comes to things like the cover of your own novel! For God's sake, file suit...start a picket line...form a Mystery Writers Union....hold up publication by laying across the printing presses! The cover must jive with the contents! That cypress stump cover belongs on a Jonathon King novel.
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