Nikki from Ontario asks: I was wondering with regards to the artist of the cover of the book being published. The person that draws the cover for you, do they get a percentage of the profit per book sold?
Actually, Nikki, I don’t have a whole lot of say in the covers the publishers use for my books, so I’ve never had an artist draw a cover just for me, not in the way you mean. The publisher decides the cover. Sometimes it’s their art department who creates the image, or sometimes they use an existing image, or even commission an artist specifically for the project. It’s my understanding the artist is paid a flat fee for the use of their work, whether it was commissioned or whether the art department found it in a file somewhere and thought that it might suit the theme of the book. I rarely have an influence on what they choose. When Transworld Publishers first brought out Mariana, they commissioned artist Gary Blythe to paint the house, Greywethers, based on photographs I’d given them (I later bought the painting, which is beautiful). And for The Splendour Falls they used a painting I suggested by my friend Paul Rhoads, who lives and works in Chinon, where the book is set. But otherwise
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