Isn’t it beautiful?, lll
I don’t know what your computer screens will do to it, but the original photo is entirely legible. And any of you who were at Wiscon the year I was GoH will recognise the first page of what I read at the bookshop on the opening night.
(Bee!)
And isn’t it beautiful?, ll
I had thought this was going to be an impossible book to find a good image for . . . I mean, bees. But while I think the cover art is beautiful, I think the interior design is brilliant. You worry about the cover art, of course*, because the grim reality is that it is crucial. Unless you’re Shakespeare or J K Rowling you need a oooh, pick me up jacket illustration. What a publisher does with the inside varies, and if what it is is ‘not much’ you just sigh a bit and get on with the next thing. The interior design on this one is the honey on your bread and butter. (Even the line breaks are bees.)
* You lose sleep worrying about cover art
And isn’t it beautiful?
Bees!
I’m not sure that the artists and designers and people like that get enough praise and publicity even when they really, REALLY deserve it, so let me list who I can find:
cover art: Cory Ench and Catska Ench
cover design: Linda McCarthy and Theresa Evangelista
design, presumably interior: Katrina Damkoehler
It’s here . . .
I got to bed last night . . . um . . . late. So I was still in the early, Clothing. Must. Find. Clothing. Put. On, stage when there was an ominous noise like a delivery van stopping in front of the house. Yeeep. Pulled several garments on at random and was at least covered when there was a crisp knock on the door.
But see what he was bringing me.*
* And then there is the saga of the Loading the Photo, which for some reason saved itself as ‘read only’ and ‘read only’ sideways, and I’m amazed the neighbours didn’t call the cops to remove the dangerous madwoman or at least gag her. . . .
YAAAAY, iv
I admit to being a bit demented on the subject of roses, but I look at something (or, if you prefer, someone) like Souvenir and think, okay, we gotta save a planet that can produce her.