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Date: 2007-01-19 08:46 pm (UTC)speaking of covers ...
Back in the Old days of FIDOnet, before the internet became really a common thing, there was what we called an echo, mainly for writers of SF. Think of it as being like a newsgroup.
One of the authors complained that their publisher had chosen cover art that had absolutely nothing to do with the story - the cover showed a large blue turtloid creature putting humans into a cage on its back. This spawned an acronym - FBT (Friggin' Blue Turtloids)- which became somewhat of a byword/injoke on the echo. IIRC, the author was John DeChancie.
When my co-author and I had our first book published, we went to a meeting with the publisher, which we were told was to discuss the potential cover designs. Instead when we walked in, we were handed the completed book. Fortunately the cover was one we could live with, but it did serve to bring back the memory of the FBT, and still serves as a reminder that very often the author of a book has little or no input on the cover design.