Comments on: Kill-Grief by Caroline Rance http://www.picnic-publishing.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/07/15/kill-grief-by-caroline-rance-2/ Picnic Books Sun, 22 May 2011 14:10:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: RosyB http://www.picnic-publishing.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/07/15/kill-grief-by-caroline-rance-2/comment-page-1/#comment-63 RosyB Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:04:10 +0000 http://www.picnic-publishing.co.uk/blog/?p=26#comment-63 Oh good post! I wonder what it is with the headless thing. I am quite boring and still like the good old painting slapped on the front of histfic novels. Maybe because I like paintings. And somehow histfic covers with people on always manage to look too fashionably modern...I can't put my finger on how. It's like historical mini-series from the eighties where everyone has mullets. Mind you, maybe this is all very appropriate. Perhaps an historical novel has to speak as much to and about it's own time as well as the past. Hmm. Still, mullets... Oh good post! I wonder what it is with the headless thing. I am quite boring and still like the good old painting slapped on the front of histfic novels. Maybe because I like paintings. And somehow histfic covers with people on always manage to look too fashionably modern…I can’t put my finger on how. It’s like historical mini-series from the eighties where everyone has mullets. Mind you, maybe this is all very appropriate. Perhaps an historical novel has to speak as much to and about it’s own time as well as the past. Hmm. Still, mullets…

]]> By: Caroline Rance http://www.picnic-publishing.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/07/15/kill-grief-by-caroline-rance-2/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Caroline Rance Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:27:00 +0000 http://www.picnic-publishing.co.uk/blog/?p=26#comment-61 Sarah - yes, you are definitely on to something there - Ann Boleyn has come back and is making a good living posing for book covers! Thanks for that article, Andrew - I thoroughly agree that a 'quieter' design stands out from the masses. My favourite recent cover is Tom Bullough's 'The Claude Glass' - very atmospheric and striking amongst all the busy gold lettering and vibrant colours. Sarah – yes, you are definitely on to something there – Ann Boleyn has come back and is making a good living posing for book covers!

Thanks for that article, Andrew – I thoroughly agree that a ‘quieter’ design stands out from the masses. My favourite recent cover is Tom Bullough’s ‘The Claude Glass’ – very atmospheric and striking amongst all the busy gold lettering and vibrant colours.

]]> By: Caro http://www.picnic-publishing.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/07/15/kill-grief-by-caroline-rance-2/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Caro Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:09:07 +0000 http://www.picnic-publishing.co.uk/blog/?p=26#comment-60 Hi Caroline, Just had a look at your website, interesting bio, I think sometime intelligent people don't like school because they are bored from being spoon fed so there mind wonders in imaginary world - and sometimes this is how writers are born (or in my case doodlers). Bonne Chance with the Kill-Grief book cover - I am sure it will come to you! Hi Caroline, Just had a look at your website, interesting bio, I think sometime intelligent people don’t like school because they are bored from being spoon fed so there mind wonders in imaginary world – and sometimes this is how writers are born (or in my case doodlers). Bonne Chance with the Kill-Grief book cover – I am sure it will come to you!

]]> By: Andrew http://www.picnic-publishing.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/07/15/kill-grief-by-caroline-rance-2/comment-page-1/#comment-58 Andrew Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:30:37 +0000 http://www.picnic-publishing.co.uk/blog/?p=26#comment-58 Hi Caroline, I'm much enjoying your entertaining blog. There's also a good article on the history, and market driven fashions, of cover design at http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/history/story/0,6000,552107,00.html which suggests that sometimes a design that reverses expectations - to stand out from the pile of books of similar genre - catches the shopper's eye. A headless body? Hi Caroline, I’m much enjoying your entertaining blog. There’s also a good article on the history, and market driven fashions, of cover design at http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/history/story/0,6000,552107,00.html which suggests that sometimes a design that reverses expectations – to stand out from the pile of books of similar genre – catches the shopper’s eye. A headless body?

]]> By: sarah http://www.picnic-publishing.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/07/15/kill-grief-by-caroline-rance-2/comment-page-1/#comment-57 sarah Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:41:43 +0000 http://www.picnic-publishing.co.uk/blog/?p=26#comment-57 Yes that poor headless woman - she's even forced to pose for Elizabethan historical novels too... and I'm beginning to wonder, could she possibly be called Ann Boylyn? They say her ghost stills walks.... and very profitably it seems! Yes that poor headless woman – she’s even forced to pose for Elizabethan historical novels too… and I’m beginning to wonder, could she possibly be called Ann Boylyn? They say her ghost stills walks…. and very profitably it seems!

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