(urth) Wolfe covers

[David Stockhoff]

Art directors can be a timid breed. They are sensitive to backlash and 
blame, because that's what they are hired to prevent.

On 12/30/2010 2:21 PM, James Wynn wrote:
> BTW
>
> The cover of Home Fires is pretty boring, but at least its better than 
> the 4th grade
> Photoshop cover from The Sorcerer's House.
>
> Wolfe recently said something about the covers on The Book of the New 
> Sun.
> He said he has always been happy with the original cover of Shadow of 
> the Torturer. No one expected the sales to be a big deal so they let 
> him and the editor do what they wanted. But with each volume the 
> expectations for the sales of the next volume increased. Consequently, 
> with each release the Art Director became more involved and exercised 
> more control, so that with each release, the quality of the artwork 
> deteriorated. I don't know who the Art Director was a Tor at the time. 
> He shouldn't put Gene Wolfe as a reference on his C.V.
>
> u+16b9


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