Actually, according to Amazon, the full title is “THE SILENCE OF THE STONES: Will the secrets written in the stones destroy a young woman’s world? The runes are cast. Who will die?”
Actually, according to Amazon, the full title is “THE SILENCE OF THE STONES: Will the secrets written in the stones destroy a young woman’s world? The runes are cast. Who will die?”
I’ve been designing book covers and DVD covers for my own stories for over fifteen years, but I love your site because it shows me what I should avoid. However, I cannot find a fault with this cover. Perhaps a subtitle or blurb, in a lower case type, might help but, otherwise, it’s a very attractive cover.
The photoshop job is terrible–prime examples being the hair and the thing between her fingers. The composition is off balance. The font is boring and unenticing. The offcenter blob of light draws the eye in the wrong direction. This is a boring, bland, unimaginative cover.
This is one of those “Missed it that much” covers, so close, yet flawed. Not as horrible as the usually LBC or dredgin the backwaters of the Amazon cover, but cudda been better,
Looks like a runestone. S from a real language’s alphabet I can recognise (Futhark, not ‘Elder Futhark’) or, apparently, ‘ei’ from whatever the fortune-telling-type runic alphabet is called. Ties into the longer title/misplaced blurb, at least.
From the major fail with that object specifically, do people think it more likely that the image of the woman was translucent when obtained and the Photoshopper couldn’t figure out how to change opacity, or that it was an afterthought and they really weren’t bothered?
No one knew who made this cover nor where they came from.
*tiny man and horse from the last post appear and dance around the stones*
I wanna know–am I supposed to infer that stones are normally noisy, from this cover? Singing stones? Acapella? Four-part harmony? Jeeeeeeeeeeze.
i mean, there is such a thing as music using stones (and music while stoned but that’s another cover) but… not using the sort of stones depicted here
Stones? Silent? (Rolling Stones Sep 2017 Hamburg, Munich, Spielberg, Zurich)
That right-hand, middle spot just kills the cover. The sunshine. The whatever-the-hell she’s wearing and whatever is stuck between her fingers. Meh.