Yet it started off so well . . . until I scrolled down.
AJ
10 years ago
This is one of those covers that looks great… then you scroll down.
http://i.imgur.com/AS47aOS.png This took me three minutes. So it’s not great, but seriously. Author, if you find this post, you can use it, the font is free and everything, just. Please.
I like yours much better. Maybe there should be a website where the point is that commenters post their own improvements. Within parameters like just quick and easy fixes. A change in font or font placement, deletion of unnecessary elements, etc. I’d like to see them side by side with the originals.
Well done! Why overcomplicate things, authors? Clean and simple. Tada!
Bruce
10 years ago
Huh? We will leave no football behind? This is a confusing cover.
It’s a nice picture, but I didn’t see the connection with the title/subtitle. It gave me a strong “war story” impression.
Then I read the blurb and found the picture was actually appropriate, but the title/subtitle was poor for a mystery involving a football player disappearing.
Keep the picture (full cover – like AJ’s example), lose the font(s), and change the title/subtitle. This could actually work.
![cover[1]](https://lousybookcovers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/cover114.jpg)
Oh. Hell.
Nothing reminds me of teamwork like Hobo font…
Hobo font + three more!
Is this a football mystery? Wouldn’t that be a teammate, not a comrade? I am totally confused, but this cover does not inspire me to search further.
Just the opposite.
Yet it started off so well . . . until I scrolled down.
This is one of those covers that looks great… then you scroll down.
http://i.imgur.com/AS47aOS.png This took me three minutes. So it’s not great, but seriously. Author, if you find this post, you can use it, the font is free and everything, just. Please.
Nice! That’s all it takes — and boom, the cover works!
Sorry, but NO!
Needs more fonts!
I like yours much better. Maybe there should be a website where the point is that commenters post their own improvements. Within parameters like just quick and easy fixes. A change in font or font placement, deletion of unnecessary elements, etc. I’d like to see them side by side with the originals.
See, that’s how you do it! AJ, you’ve actually *looked* at book covers before, haven’t you?
Definitely better.
Well done! Why overcomplicate things, authors? Clean and simple. Tada!
Huh? We will leave no football behind? This is a confusing cover.
It’s a nice picture, but I didn’t see the connection with the title/subtitle. It gave me a strong “war story” impression.
Then I read the blurb and found the picture was actually appropriate, but the title/subtitle was poor for a mystery involving a football player disappearing.
Keep the picture (full cover – like AJ’s example), lose the font(s), and change the title/subtitle. This could actually work.