Neverwherea process book by Audrey Benedictus

About NeverwhereSynopsisRichard Mayhew is a ordinary man who finds his world turned upside-down when he stops to help an injured young girl, the Lady Door. Suddenly finding that his interaction with her has erased him from his plane of existence and plunged him into an odd world beneath the London that he knows, Richard has no choice but to join her on her quest to find out who murdered her family, in hopes of finding his way back to life as he knows it.

Praise for Neverwhere“For those who have not read Neverwhere, the new edition is the one to read ... readers can experience this spellbinding, magical world the way that Neil Gaiman wanted us to all along.”- Huffington Post

“For those who have never been to Neverwhere, it’s time to go. For those who may have traveled once before, this new edition is calling out to you. There is more to see, hear and learn.”- Suspense Magazine

About the AuthorNeil Gaiman is an accomplished British writer who is respon-sible for many notable fantasy and science-fiction works, such as his novels American Gods, Coraline, Stardust, Good Omens, and Sandman, with television credits in Doctor Who and Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf.

Title: Neverwhere

Author: Neil Gaiman

Publisher: BBC Books

Published: 1996

ISBN: 9780062476371

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About Neverwhere

Medusa Gothic

I’m choosing this font for the title because it feel

very old-fashioned and dark and goes with the

theme of the book.

Baskerville Old Face

I’m chose this one for similar reasons as Medusa

Gothic, but I was to use a less stylized text for

things such as the author.

The Original CoverI feel that while the colors do communicate and air of

both fancy as well as mysterious and dingy, nothing else

about it tells me anything else about the book. In fact, it

doesn’t even have a book synopsis on the back, so when

I first read this book I was going off of my love of Neil

Gaiman’s other work and hoping for the best (and best

it was). This cover only shows me that the book is set in

London, but does not tell me anything about the genre or

the characters.

I’m also confused by why the graphic at the top of the

cover is there in the first place, or why the author’s name

is so large. I think that this would have worked better if

perhaps more room was given to Big Ben and the plain

misty background, which could allow for more focus on

the title text. I also think that making Gaiman’s name in

all-caps while “Neverwhere” is not is a very odd choice.

I also have never been a big fan of praise-quotes on a

book, because none of those individuals opinions about

the book really matter to me. I’m going to read it with or

without a raving review, and more often than not I find

that books with good reviews are not very good. So to

place one on the cover seems unnecessary and takes up

space that can be used to further enrich the cover.

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“‘Dear Diary,’ he began. ‘On

Friday I had a job, a fiancée,

a home, and a life that made

sense. (Well, as much as any

life makes sense). Then I

found an injured girl bleeding

on the pavement, and I tried

to be a Good Samaritan. Now

I’ve got no fiancée, no home,

no job, and I’m walking around

a couple of hundred feet under

the streets of London with the

projected life expectancy of a

suicidal fruitfly.’”

Richard wrote a

diary entry in his head...

Neil Gaiman is an

accomplished British writer

who is responsible for many

notable fantasy and science-

fiction works, such as his novels

“American Gods”, “Coraline”,

“Stardust”, “Good Omens”,

and “Sandman”, with television

credits in “Doctor Who” and

Robert Zemeckis’ “Beowulf”.

Richard Mayhew is an ordinary man who finds his world turned upside-down when he stops to help an injured young girl, the Lady Door. Suddenly finding that his interaction with her has erased him from his plane of existence and plunged him into an odd world beneath the London that he knows, Richard has no choice but to join her on her quest to find out who murdered her family, in

hopes of finding his way back to life as he knows it.

Praise for Neverwhere

“For those who have not read Neverwhere, the new edition is the one to read ... readers can experience this spellbinding, magical world the way that

Neil Gaiman wanted us to all along.”

- Huffington Post

“For those who have never been to Neverwhere, it’s time to go. For those who may have traveled once before, this new edition is calling out to you.

There is more to see, hear and learn.”

- Suspense Magazine