Fortunately, there are many great cover designers out there. If I had to pick one, I guess I would vote for one of my long time favs: Dave McKean, and to snigle out a current favourite cover from amongst , I'd stick with the one he did for Jonathan Carroll's , a book that I don't have, unfortunately, but would definitely give a try to because of its magnificent cover. And with that I guess I answered the other part of the question as well. Yes, I think covers are very important - in an ideal case they give a true visual summary of the book they're designer for, raising hopes and expectations that get fulfilled while reading. (As an aside, I must note that I do not really like fiction covers that show near photorealistic human faces, "portraits" of the books' heroes: they take away from the freedom of my imagination as a reader and that's not an effect I as an author would wish to subject my readers to.)

by Mariana 03:25:21 AM 2012.12.09