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Does having a professionally done cover ever help *sell* a book?

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Cathy Clamp:
Oh my yes! I can't begin to TELL you how many people picked up our March release, TOUCH OF EVIL, because of the cover. http://www.ciecatrunpubs.com/touch.htmBlack leather and skin . . . what's not to love?  ;D

Dom:
Do you mean sell a book to a publisher, or to sell the book to the public once a publisher picks it up?

It does help sell it to the public.  I'm a coverart whore and I'll at least look at books based on coverart, and if a known series changes its coverart to something I don't like, I'll complain bitterly of course!   ;D

Take the new Anne McCaffrey pern covers...ew!  Who would replace Whelan coverart with that bland stuff?! ;)

But anyway...yeah, I'm shallow in the coverart department.

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:

--- Quote from: Dom on February 16, 2007, 05:17:58 AM --- if a known series changes its coverart to something I don't like, I'll complain bitterly of course!   ;D

--- End quote ---

I will too, but that's not because I care about what the covers actually are, that's just perfectly normal obsessive-compulsive wanting things to match.

Richelle Mead:
Yeah, I think covers make a difference.  I mean, even the most beautiful cover in the world won't make a difference if I read the back and think it sucks.  But, a cover can get me to notice a good book I might otherwise have missed.  Someone told me they picked up my book because of the cover, and I nearly passed out.  That being said, authors are in the hands of the marketing department when it comes to covers.  We have little input!  I've heard some scary things about the next succubus cover and am hoping for the best on that one.

Tasmin21:
Now, established authors please correct me if I am wrong, but isn't it possible to add some kind of "approval" clause into your contract?  ie:  I can't draw a lick, so I can't design my own covers, but I would like to have SOME say so in the artwork on my books some day.

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