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change my tree ... "The Two Dust Jackets of Mathilda Savitch"

In September, "Mathilda Savitch" appear in paperback in a radically different cover. Why is this country has chosen different cover design, it was I can not answer (at the publisher is changing?) But thanks to an illuminating article on mediabistro.com I know now, after all, put the considerations behind the two projects:

Hardcover

adorns the German hardcover this playful, silhouette-like image of a girl - I am at least sharply - to represent Mathilda. The original idea for this cover is from the author personally, although it has been implemented by the graphics department of its U.S. publisher FSG: "I mentioned a number of things, but I said that I really like silhouettes, and I mentioned that I thought something that looked like a strange story book for children would really work." Well, it worked for me ... FSGS for marketing strategists, however, apparently not. Because the review copies were not printed with the striking cover in black and white, it was learned the U.S. market issue a complete make over.

Paperback

"Both my editor and [...] I thought this was a great cover," said Lodato, "but maybe it just reminds needed to be sexier ... in some ways. It was a little cold. So they wanted to play with some other ideas. "Two days Lodato leafed through various art books, before he came across photographs of snow globes be designed which with great attention to detail by the artists Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz made. The on the cover depicted snow ball is called "Traveler 48 at Night" and is intended to illustrate the emotional state in which Matilda is beginning its search for the murderer of his sister: "The novel's about a child alone in at emotionally frozen landscape, and she's trying to figure out lots of things, from where her sister went to death in general. And this just Seemed very resonant to that. "

With this background information, I see two envelopes with different eyes and find them - each in its own way - nice (although the original draft of "full effect" comes along). Which cover do you like better?