More book cover debate...
The excellent designer Adrian Kinloch is designing, and reflecting on, some covers for us. Specifically for a book we're publishing in early 09 called Watching the Door. (Subtitle also under discussion.)
Key considerations:
Book's about Northern Ireland, written by Irish guy with no platform in the US.
Book is hilarious, violent and a wee bit raunchy.
Selling books about grim, violent housing projects in northwest Europe 30 years ago not always that easy.
Book doesn't fit into conventional categories so well. (Part memoir, part political history, has "current affairs" type appeal...)
Occurs to me, writing this, that I shall also ask Jessa Crispin, who is a big fan of the book. [Here's her Smart Set review too.]