What A Good Book Cover Communicates To The Reader

Novelist Joshilyn Jackson says she doesn’t care whether or not she likes the cover of her books. She says pleasing the author “isn’t a book cover’s job,” but instead “a good cover gets my potential reader to pick the book up.”

Jackson continues her look at how book covers work in this edition of “Writer To Reader” on “City Lights and includes a story about how the cover of her first published work came to be.

Finally, Jackson challenges listeners to go to their local bookstore and buy a book based on nothing but its cover.