FYI on Book Covers

[Randy]

No: HPFGUIDX 166968

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> 
> Annemehr:
> Actually, Mary GrandPre does read the books first, I suppose 
because 
> she does an illustration for each chapter heading as well as the 
> cover.
> 
> I was searching for an old interview where she talked about this, 
but 
> I found a more recent one at Mugglenet, instead:
> 
> http://www.mugglenet.com/app/news/full_story/638
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> Daniel: Could you describe the process of illustrating for a Harry 
> Potter book? 
> 
> Mary GrandPre: Well, first they send the manuscript and it's just 
> usually on typed sheets of paper on 8 1/2 x 11 sheets, and it's 
> usually a pretty big stack. Then I just read through and highlight 
> visual descriptions of people and places so that I know how to draw 
> them. I make ideas for chapter headings and ideas for cover art. 
Then 
> I sketch out all the ideas and send them to the art director in New 
> York and he either approves or has me redo, and then it just kind 
of 
> goes back and forth a little bit during the pencil stages. Then, 
> after it's approved by the art director, the publisher, and J.K. 
> Rowling, then I start the final artwork with pastels, and I just 
take 
> that through final stages. 
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> Annemehr
> 
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DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS?   Based on the last cover, this lady now 
lives in Sarasota, Florida.  There is a manuscript of book seven 
within 30 miles of my house!!!!  AAHHHHHHHHHH!  The torture!!!!!!!
My precious is so close and yet so far!!  AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!

Randy