They say you eat with your eyes— I read with my eyes too. Well, we all do.
But I mean in the sense that my gravitational pull to beautiful things does not leave the building as soon as we start talking about books— I fear I do judge a book by its cover, and quite often at that.
For better or for worse, I need a great image to pull me in in order to even care enough about a jacket description to read it. A book cover tells me so much!
As an aside, my heart consistently breaks for authors who get stuck with meh covers— you have to work so much harder to market that book, and it has nothing to do with how good you were at your job as a writer. It’s kind of nuts how you pour your life into something as a writer and then this HUGE part of it gets outsourced to a stranger and you have little to no weigh-in. (If you’re curious about the process of designing book covers and how involved authors are, I loved this podcast episode from my friends Becca Freeman and Olivia Muenter all about it.)
Back to waxing poetic— is the…