No, please do. In fact this makes my job so much easier. Most of you know by now that I work in a bookshop and subsequently put out hundreds of books on a daily basis.
But unless I’ve read the book I’m putting out, or have heard about it – how will I know which category to place it in? Easy – the cover.
Book covers are there to attract the reader and hopefully encourage them enough to turn it over and read the back. But what if the cover has no relation to the content?
Sad, depressing, somewhat disturbing real life accounts will have a picture of a sad child on the front, usually with a nice cursive font on the cover. Dave Pelzer, you have a lot to answer for. The title usually has the word “Mummy” or “Daddy” in; or “help”, or even “why”.