Author Horror Story #4: Courier
Disbelief befalls two first-time scribes when they see their publisher's wretched cover options.
Tom and Sandra couldn't believe their eyes. They stared at each other over Skype in utter disbelief. (Yeah, it was the pre-Zoom days.) Almost at once, they said, "This is what their designers came up with?"
The two co-authors had just spent all of 2012 jointly penning the manuscript for their first book. They were stoked to write for a widely respected publisher. With two months until their putative pub date, their new project manager had finally sent over the cover mockups. (The previous PM had dropped the ball here, as well as on a number of other tasks.) Tom and Sandra were each understandably excited, but they decided to look at them together virtually.
The two were in for quite the shock.
