Down the Chimney and Cognitive Dissonance
/Today I added some color to the chimney. I’ve been painting this chimney for almost a year and I can’t even say what color it is. So, I painted it brick red. I figure that I’m allowed to take liberties with the cover image, adding extra details that won’t appear in the book, but I don’t want the cover to be so different that is creates cognitive dissonance. I don’t want readers to say as the get into the book,, “Hmmm. It seems that the chimney looks different on every page! And Jimmy’s shirt is different every time I see him!”
Note to future self: create a page with showing the specific colors for all of the objects in the book: t-shirts, cars, shoes, belts, houses, chimneys…everything. And refer to it religiously.
