Book Cover Layout

Layout book cover for Janelle Brown’s first novel ‘All We Ever Wanted Was Everything’ – Netherlands edition (Alles wat wij wilden was alles). Although the cover was favored by the layouter and they did fight for it like hell, the outline was ‘client killed’.

The publisher decided to go with the US cover, featuring a ‘cup of ice’. Actually, the layouter became angry about the publisher’s ’stubborn’ decision and they passed back the job for this project stating that for a ‘cup of ice’ an editor is overqualified. However, finally, client is always king and sometimes things are just not turning out.

About the Author:
Janelle Brown is an American essayist and journalist, living in Los Angeles, California, and she is married with filmmaker Greg Harrison. Her work appears regularly in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, in high class magazines like Elle, Vogue, Wired, Self, among numerous other publications. For 5 years she was a senior writer at Salon, and began her career as a staff writer at Wired, working on seminal Web sites like Hot Wired and Wired News. Back in the 1990’s, she co-founded Maxi, a women’s pop culture magazine.
‘All We Ever Wanted Was Everything’ is the first novel of  Janelle Brown and features a smart, acerbic comedy chronicling one eventful summer when the lives of a family are turned upside-down.

• Janelle Brown Homepage http://www.janellebrown.com/