You go to the airport and look at the bookstand, and you feel the titles are similar, the covers are similar, and you wonder how they can be different.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them.
To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.
The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.
I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.
Alejandro Colucci has designed covers for my books that stand out, that catch the eye, and that make me, as a reader and consumer, want to know more about the books behind those covers.
When it's between the covers of a book, content is perceived to have literary substance - or more so that it might otherwise.
It doesn't require much thought for one to realise that any travel book worthy of the name has to be a departure from the standard idea of the form.
Next, in importance to books are their titles.
The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.
The covers of this book are too far apart.