[HPFGU-OTChatter] Book Covers

[Kathryn Cawte]

>      Ok.  After almost 7 months, I give up.  I cannot decipher the
> back cover of the regular American edition of OOP and I have some
> questions about the special American edition book cover.
>
Well being British I haven't seen the covers in question (does anyone have a
link to some pictures?) but cover artists are often given a sketchy
description to work from (which sometimes it seems they completely ignore,
based on some of the cover art for books I've seen anyway <g>) and since the
pics have to be done before publication (obviously) they haven't read the
books so it's a good bet that you'll never be able to work out exactly what
the artist was getting at, but don't get hung up on things not matching
completely with textual descriptions - the artist probably hasn't seen the
descriptions and is having to make it up as s/he goes along.

K