![]() ![]() Hoffman found it in a coffee-table book while browsing a New York bookstore. The glowing image is of a creature that appears part-fish, part-fairy, with a long tail, wings and the suggestion of a human torso. Hoffman’s newest novel, “The Museum of Extraordinary Things,” was published with another cover she proposed. The image, of a long-haired woman with a white bird on each shoulder, became the novel’s cover. In 2010, when Hoffman sent her editor the draft for her historical novel, “The Dovekeepers,” set during the siege of Masada in ancient Israel, she included a photograph by Joyce Tenneson she found while writing the book. According to Nan Graham, senior vice president and publisher at Scribner, “Never in the history of the world does the author come up with the perfect cover, and certainly not the day you get the manuscript.” ![]() ![]() Oftentimes they are sent a cover (possibly a few versions if they are lucky) and are told this is how their book will look. Authors typically do not have a say in the covers of their books. We live in a society that certainly does judge books by their covers and the art of cover design is one that is highly scrutinized from all angles (sales, design, art, appeal). The Wall Street Journal recently profiled Alice Hoffman and focused on the input she has on the covers of her books. ![]()
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