{"id":44,"date":"2003-09-24T01:17:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-24T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2012-01-07T13:53:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T20:53:27","slug":"the-pagan-cover-design-dilemma-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"The Pagan cover-design dilemma (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Graham Harvey, my co-editor on the Paganism Reader<\/a>, tells me that Routledge editors are still agonizing over a cover design. Admittedly, the one shown in the online catalog is pretty pedestrian.<\/p>\n

It seems that there are only three choices for Pagan books.<\/p>\n

1. A tree
2. A standing stone, as on Michael York’s Pagan Theology<\/a>.
3. A Pre-Raphaelite female figure in earth tones, as favored by Kensington\/Citadel and other publishers of how-to books.<\/p>\n

We will see which one we get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Graham Harvey, my co-editor on the Paganism Reader, tells me that Routledge editors are still agonizing over a cover design. Admittedly, the one shown in the online catalog is pretty pedestrian. It seems that there are only three choices for Pagan books. 1. A tree2. A standing stone, as on Michael York’s Pagan Theology.3. 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