Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 02/08/06 12:04 PM To cc dragaera at dragaera.info Subject Re: Dzur - Cover art question >Sokerchick wrote: > >>Can the author ask for a "redraw" or a rework of the original art? >> >> I would assume that a key feature of the character (like Vlad's moustache) would be something the author would say "Hey you should >probably add that" or does the author not see the print till later and doesn't have a chance to ask for things like that? >> >> Do these transactions (for lack of a better word) go on between the author and artist or the artist and publishing company where the >publishing company can say yes or no to a particular cover art work? >> > >Somebody has to tell the author something about what he's going to >draw. What does the publisher say, "it's about a guy"? Or does >somebody actually read the book first? Of course, in this case, there's already cover art out there for the other 9 books of the series (plus 3 omnibus editions), each of which has a (four-legged) jhereg on it. Perhaps they just use the previous covers as a reference? Majikjon