Hey! They stole my book cover!
September 5, 2013
Remember at the start of the year, Matt and I had a contest to design a cover for a random book in half an hour? I came up with this:
Well, today I saw that my wife is reading Abraham Vergese’s novel Cutting for Stone (which, for what it’s worth, she says is very good). Here’s the cover:
You can’t tell me that‘s a coincidence.
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week 
September 6, 2013 at 3:45 pm
Sunset pictures are pretty common covers, and red/orange/white text looks good on them. Anansi Boys, for example, has pretty much the same thing plus a spiderweb.
September 6, 2013 at 4:25 pm
Ha! Neil Gaiman stole my cover!
September 6, 2013 at 4:32 pm
…and was so rude as to publish it six years earlier!
September 6, 2013 at 4:34 pm
Well, he was covering his tracks, wasn’t he? Creating plausible deniability.
September 7, 2013 at 6:26 am
Without the Copperplate Gothic lettering, you have no case.
September 7, 2013 at 9:18 am
Like I said in the original post: “One important lesson I learned is that I need to figure out how the get GIMP on my Mac to recognise more fonts — it has a tiny selection, and all the sans-serif ones look like they’re straight out of a PowerPoint presentation.”