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.
Karl
10 years ago
This cover was submitted to the monthly “e-Book Cover Design Awards” contest at Joel Friedlander’s thebookdesigner.com
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.