Also, as an established writer, do you get more say in the cover art of your books? I read somewhere that most writers don’t get much, if any at all, say in what the cover art will be, unless I heard it wrong?
This is the cover of GHASTLY BEYOND BELIEF. It was my first book, in 1984. I was 23. I drew the cover on a napkin in a pub, chatting to Faith Brooker, the editor, and gave it to her to keep, and she passed it to the head of the art department, who gave it to the artist, Alan Craddock, who painted it. And the head of the art department did everything I asked for, even making the word Ghastly green and dripping.
This spoiled me, and because I did not believe after that that writers get no say in their covers, I’ve always had a say in the cover designs since then.
