Paid Too Much to Pretend
The cover on the left costs more.
And
I don’t just mean that in the banal, “time costs money” — “money is
expensive” claptrap way that fills your feed depending on who you follow
on socials.
Let’s put
aside for the moment that equating time with money is a spectacularly
debilitating fallacy that only young people are privileged to give
credence.
Time was indeed misused.
That is true. Multiple revisions were requested. My client got
increasingly more frustrated. There were tears. There were
recriminations. And then denials. Misrepresentations abounded. Lawyers
were involved. Weeks passed. Time and money were wasted.
I
literally mean the cover on the left cost more dollars 💲💸💲 than the
cover on the right. The designer the publisher had on staff charged
more for the cover on the left, than the person I trusted to do the
cover on the right.
Imagine Lori going
to market with a cover she couldn’t bring herself to connect with.
Meeting this cover on the left someday—this dogwater cover adorning her
book sitting on a shelf in a bookstore.
Her
publisher had no issue with that. He repeatedly tried to twist her arm
into going to press with something that looked like a book, but neither
quacked nor waggled. 🦆
It matters who you trust your book to. What they know—what they can actually do—makes a difference to the outcome.
Either
find someone who knows what they’re doing or pay for the privilege of
pretending you have a best-selling book. Lots of people are doing that,
btw. FYI just in case that particular tea hasn’t yet spilled into your
personal saucer. ☕
Either find someone who knows what they’re doing or pay for the privilege of pretending you have a best-selling book.
Up to you.
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