[HPFGU-OTChatter] Book Covers

[Heidi Tandy]

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 4:43pm, Kathryn Cawte wrote a reply to Amy about the 
back of Book 5
And said that 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.
>
Not for Mary GrandPre, though. If you go over to the leaky cauldron and 
do a search for her name, you'll find some interviews and q&a sessions 
with her and she mayve done an explanation on the back cover there.

In  a summary of her visit to salt Lake City that Porphyria did here 
back in the fall, she talked about her book-reading process, and how it 
impacted her cover creation.