by Anthony Behrens | Feb 16, 2026 | Publishingland
Cover Review: Party Boy by Breton Dukes, Te Herenga Waka University Press. It’s no great secret…or it should be no great secret…that the reason book covers exist is to coax potential buyers into picking a book up for closer inspection – the first step to a...
by Anthony Behrens | Dec 9, 2025 | Publishingland
Yikes! If you’re a bookish type of person you will have heard that two novels got dumped from this year’s Ockhams – New Zealand’s premier publishing prize – a week or so ago. This happened because they…gasp…had covers made with the aid of…gasp…ARTIFICIAL...
by Anthony Behrens | Nov 25, 2025 | Publishingland
When I worked for the local rag, we got a new General Manager who decided that the newspaper needed a new slogan. General Managers tend to be people who have a high opinion of themselves. They don’t lack self confidence. “Simply Parochial – that would be a great...
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