People, who ask questions,
sometimes not really looking, or waiting for an answer asked “Why
is the cover of Streets of Birdsong, plain and unexciting?
I don't tell them, just ask
what they think it should have been. I never get suggestions. That's
the problem with people they have views on everything in their own
head, but will never speak out about what those views are.
It's an
Irish form of Paranoia: fear that people will overhear you, or form a view
of you by hearing what you say or think.
The clue to the cover is
in the time period depicted, and Ireland where Irish books were not
widely available and those that were suffered from a lack of
publishers' financial support. Don't judge the book by the cover was
the mantra. So a really amateur type cover sometimes contained gems.
So the cover of Streets depicts the time, the history, the stories, the characters of Midland Ireland, and the poverty of not having a flash cover.
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