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book by its

J A 'Dusty' Sayers dusty at sayersnet.com
Wed Oct 8 14:47:20 PDT 2003

In general response to the discussion about the importance of cover art, 
I only discovered Brust because a friend of mine recommended his work to 
me.  He knew about him because his younger brother had picked up a copy 
of Phoenix in the bookstore when it was new (which also tells, more or 
less, how long I've been reading Brust).

Kid brother's rationale?

'The cover looked cool.'

I doubt covers are terribly important to continuing buyers, but they 
have to be for first-timers, I would think.  Even now, on the rare 
occasion when I try a new author without some other recommendation, it's 
usually because the cover looked intriguing in some way.  Otherwise, I 
wouldn't look at the blurb or flip through the opening chapter, or 
anything else.

All that said, I'm not wild about the cover art for Sethra Lavode.  But 
then again, I'm neither an artist or a marketer.

-- 
J A Dusty Sayers

'Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.'
     --C S Lewis