A Choose-Your-Own Cover Adventure
Talk about making the world your focus group. Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, has invited fans to help choose the US cover for her forthcoming novel The Signature Of All Things, (Penguin/Viking, Oct. 11), by voting, today through Sunday, on one of three choices on her Facebook page:
The winner will be announced on Monday in USA Today.
Our bet, based on studies that show readers respond best to covers that feature people and give a sense of story, is that it will be the one on the right.