The Sniff Test

The Sniff Test

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...
A Sloppy Business

A Sloppy Business

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...