One of the strangest results of having your name on a book jacket is the proliferation of people who know one narrow aspect of your life and are suddenly surprised to learn there's more.
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I like to match what I wear to my book jacket - it's a little bit cheesy, but it's my thing.
I had to learn to call book jackets 'jackets' rather than 'covers.'
It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.
I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.
I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover.
The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
My own life has been doubly disconnected, as I've written books under two different names. As an author, your name almost becomes a brand; readers know what to expect.
Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.
I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me.
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