April Bloomfield Quotes

I have a strong say in how my books are marketed, and the covers - I am very firm that I don't want pink and fluffy, or stick figures sitting drinking cocktails. That's simply not appealing to me.

My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that the more I collaborate, like by having someone do a soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently.

I love the look of books published by the firm of Rupert Hart-Davis: They strike me as handsome, elegant, and inviting. I'll pick up almost anything with that imprint, especially if it's in a jacket or priced low.

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

I have different books for different times of the day, let alone different seasons of the year!

I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.

I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.

I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.

Alejandro Colucci has designed covers for my books that stand out, that catch the eye, and that make me, as a reader and consumer, want to know more about the books behind those covers.

Writers usually don't get to pick our own covers. I know it's surprising to hear that.

As an author on a corporate press, you have a lot less control over the finished product. I figure if I spend a couple years writing something, I want to be able to decide what the cover looks like and how it's going to be presented.

I don't read. I don't like to read 'Harry Potter' or anything like that. It's not my style.

There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.

I think that different pleasures work for different readers - a friend of mine won't read anything that's not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner. I tend to care less about plot, but I'm a sucker for humor and strangeness.

I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life.

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

Why wouldn't - how couldn't - an author care about how his or her books look?

I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.

As an object itself, to me, books today are such a rare entity - I want mine to be something where, if left on the kitchen table, a child could pick it up. It can visually tell a story.

I write about messy relationships, and they put pastel covers on them, but I can't complain.

There are always people screeching and upset that I did this or didn't do that. Basically, they're upset that I didn't rewrite an earlier book they particularly liked.

I wrote 'Science For Her!' because I found normal, manly science textbooks to be too intense for my small size-0 brain, and I found normal science textbooks to have covers too heavy for my dainty size-0/size-2-with-bloat hands.

Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.

I read 'Twilight' when I was overseas. I actually liked it. I didn't expect to, because I generally don't like fantasy like that because it's far-fetched, but I liked it. It's pretty good.

I have always felt that effect covers are very good covers. They bring you into the story if you pay attention to them.