News Flash! HBP covers released!

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No: HPFGUIDX 125851


> > Punkie wrote:
> > It is my impression that Mary GrandPre is the only artist that 
has 
> > read any of the books at the time that they were contracted to 
> draw  the covers. Has that policy changed for the Brits? <snip>
> 
> Hannah now: Well, since they let Mary Grand Pre read the book in 
> order to design her cover, I'm sure they let the other cover 
> illustrators do the same.  Or at least read parts of it (the UK 
> editions don't have individual pictures for each chapter, so maybe 
> the cover artists don't have to be given the whole book).  The 
cover 
> art for PS, CoS, PoA, GoF and OotP all come from more than just a 
> clever guess; they couldn't have been drawn without the artist 
> having read at least the scenes they'd depicted.  
><snip> Hannah, who is equally clueless, but this is what she guesses!

~Cathy~ now:
Actually, they were very specific when the last book was released 
that Mary Grand Pre is the *only* artist allowed to read the books.  
She does chapter illustrations as well as the cover art and that was 
part of her original contract (and still is).  They said last time 
that the publisher gives the UK artists an idea of what they want on 
the cover.