Imagine this scenario between publisher and beleaguered author:
Publisher: We've decided to re-work your cover. We thought having a dog on it would sell better.
Beleaguered Author: ? There is no dog in this story.
P: but we think it's a great idea.
BA: it would be lying! I'll write a dog into the story.
P: lovely.
BA writes a dog into the story. A dachshund called Walter.
P: here's the new dog cover.
BA: ? But that's a Yorkie. Walter is a dachshund.
P: Dachshund wasn't working. So we changed it to a Yorkie.
Think that's insane? Go over to Jennifer Crusie's blog. See here and here for her posts about Walter.
2 witterings:
Hello!!! Welcome back to blogland! Love your new design!!
I'm going over to Jennifer Crusie's blog now to read for myself what on earth?!?! is going on here??
It's like some sub Kafkaesque scene playing out...
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I've heard of this. But what's even funnier is putting a glamour model's name on the cover when the book was written by an anonymous hack. I'd laugh if I wasn't crying.
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