Three in a row, but earlier there’s a fourth helping of LBC goodness from Jax E. Garson:
The Cold and Dark Places
End of Dry Days
Under the Graves
Confessions of an Elven Vampire
A quadfecta (unless I missed one or more).
Grackle
8 years ago
So did the ‘elven’ vampire refuse to convert to being an elf or a vampire or something else entirely…?
Take Cover
8 years ago
That brown bat-thing has a heck of a wingspan.
catie
8 years ago
This author has either a really old computer with an ancient graphics card or a serious vision impairment. I can’t imagine anyone with a normal vision and a computer not older than a decade looking at this much pixilation on these covers and going “Yeah, this looks good.”
Here’s the weird part. I read the Look Inside, and while I don’t think that Charlaine Harris is trembling in her boots, yet, it’s not awful. I know, I know…you don’t believe me. Yes, the work could use some lessons in storytelling and craft, but the fundamental ideas, and fairly decent sentence/paragraph construction are THERE. If he’d take a CW course, or two…he could do well. (And new cover designs, along with rewrites on his books, as well, obviously.)
Yeah, I’ve peeked inside too, and I completely agree, it’s not awful. It needs a bit of work, yes, but it’s not as bad as I’ve expected after reading the blurb. Cover needs a different set of skills, but I’d expect a decent writer to be able to write a decent blurb. But maybe that’s a different skill set too.
![cover[1]](https://lousybookcovers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/cover1-45.jpg)
I don’t know why this didn’t get a WTF tag.
I just realized that these last three covers were by the same author. Certainly a trifecta of wretchedness.
Three in a row, but earlier there’s a fourth helping of LBC goodness from Jax E. Garson:
The Cold and Dark Places
End of Dry Days
Under the Graves
Confessions of an Elven Vampire
A quadfecta (unless I missed one or more).
So did the ‘elven’ vampire refuse to convert to being an elf or a vampire or something else entirely…?
That brown bat-thing has a heck of a wingspan.
This author has either a really old computer with an ancient graphics card or a serious vision impairment. I can’t imagine anyone with a normal vision and a computer not older than a decade looking at this much pixilation on these covers and going “Yeah, this looks good.”
I read the blurb. Almost fell into a coma. It just redefined my definition of boring. Dare I look inside?
Catie:
Here’s the weird part. I read the Look Inside, and while I don’t think that Charlaine Harris is trembling in her boots, yet, it’s not awful. I know, I know…you don’t believe me. Yes, the work could use some lessons in storytelling and craft, but the fundamental ideas, and fairly decent sentence/paragraph construction are THERE. If he’d take a CW course, or two…he could do well. (And new cover designs, along with rewrites on his books, as well, obviously.)
I admit to being boggled.
Yeah, I’ve peeked inside too, and I completely agree, it’s not awful. It needs a bit of work, yes, but it’s not as bad as I’ve expected after reading the blurb. Cover needs a different set of skills, but I’d expect a decent writer to be able to write a decent blurb. But maybe that’s a different skill set too.