However… 1) It should not obscure your text, and 2) it should hint at your content. A brightly colored toddler’s painting does NOT say “conspiracy that will leave a mark” – unless that mark is in yellow paint. Hmmm… That might be why it’s “like no other.”
I think it’s the original cover of The Great Gatsby, cut apart and glued together at random. All this thing needs is an apostrophe in ‘its’ and it’ll be a full four-way failure.
![cover[2]](https://lousybookcovers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/cover2.jpg)
However… 1) It should not obscure your text, and 2) it should hint at your content. A brightly colored toddler’s painting does NOT say “conspiracy that will leave a mark” – unless that mark is in yellow paint. Hmmm… That might be why it’s “like no other.”
In that case, we’re good.
This cover was submitted to the monthly “e-Book Cover Design Awards” contest at Joel Friedlander’s thebookdesigner.com
Shockingly, it didn’t win.
Seriously? It was entered?
Seriously:
http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2012/09/e-book-cover-design-awards-august-2012/
Holy crap, that was two years ago and I still remember it. Goes to show how that frigging cover scarred my memory; I should sue!
I forgot it, too — I try not to troll the design awards there for my content.
Bwahahaha. I hope Joel commented on it. Have to check it out over on his blog.
I think it’s the original cover of The Great Gatsby, cut apart and glued together at random. All this thing needs is an apostrophe in ‘its’ and it’ll be a full four-way failure.
Ug-Ly.