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Originally Posted by leebase
And thus the role of a good publisher. An author could contract out the art work. Contract out the marketing. Contract out the distribution. Etc. The author may have skills in some of those areas and do them for himself.
The role of the publisher is to be the single point of contact leaving the author free to write. If you go without a publisher, you have to pick up those responsibilities yourself.
Lee
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I spoke to a new author yesterday that I've been following since her ABNA 2010 excerpt caught my eye. Her newly published book is a SciFi story called "Don't Feed the Fairies".
The publisher who picked her up hired an artist who didn't even read the blurb and whipped up a "Tinkerbell" fairy in 10 minutes. When the author pointed out that the cover didn't fit the content AT ALL (her "fairy" is a punk rocker type of girl with short pink hair and no wings), the publisher told her to bite them. Politely, of course. She was welcome to "do better" if she could.
She had to find a new artist on the fly to get a proper cover that wouldn't cause reader-rage of the WTF COVER?! variety. And she had to do it under the gun with regards to time constraints.
True story, take it for what you will.
Oh, and before you say this is a rare occurrence or something that only indie authors have to put up with...
This book here? The woman on the cover is supposed to be BLOND. It's even a plot point that her hair is blond. Poor Mercedes Lackey.
