Joe McLaren and Phoebe Morgan Book Jackets - The Story Behind the Cover

Readers make instant decisions about whether they feel a book is for them. A cover needs to express immediately the genre – whether it’s light or literary – and so much more. Discover the conversations that go on behind this critically important publishing decision from the point of view of an editor and a book jacket designer. Phoebe is an author and Executive Publisher at publisher Simon & Schuster. Joe designed the cover for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel James by Percival Everett.

Talking to Clare Clark