The way the dress is also a rose bloom is a very nice idea. I like the font. But yeah … those awards, and specifically the inability to cut them out from their backgrounds.
What a shame. Ruined a perfectly nice cover with fake award badges. Remove those, add more contrast, and increase the scale of the font and it would not belong here. (I might also reverse it so the dress doesn;t fall within the bleed or trim variance)
red
6 years ago
The title font is probably supposed to look woodsy or something, but it clashes with the artwork and bears such a close resemblance to an oft-used good font, it just looks wrong.
(My suggestions: use the good font and unslant the author name; and what on earth was the author thinking with those awards?)
Bruce
6 years ago
Yup, that’s what all girls from the woods are wearing these days. So practical.
To be in with a chance of ruining your book cover with that ghastly badge, you just have to submit your book to those B.R.A.G. people with A NON-REFUNDABLE SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLAR FEE! They must be raking it in. :-/
Apparently B.R.A.G. no longer allows authors to send their books. B.R.A.G. recruits readers and supplies them with ebooks to rate; then, lucky top-rated authors get notified they can pay $75 for a medallion. BRAG FAQ: “The nonrefundable fee covers ebook acquisition and administrative costs, and the expense of maintaining our website.” Shouldn’t Yog’s Law apply?
aww, shucks, I done lost out on my chance to get me one of those badges! For $75, couldn’t they at least provide a transparent background? Oh, wait…that’s probably another upcharge.
Judge Mental returning here. From the way the round and oval vanity seals were cut’n’paste square, it would make a cynic wonder if they had been properly paid for. I think I am am safe to opine they were incompetently applied.
Yeaaahhh, suuurree…the “awards”! 🙂 That dress is wholly impractical for traipsing about in the woods!
Zoom in on the 986×1479 hi res version and see the moire effect.
Also, I have never seen a cover improved by those awards badges; I see them as faux and detractions from my opinion of the works they are attached to.
The way the dress is also a rose bloom is a very nice idea. I like the font. But yeah … those awards, and specifically the inability to cut them out from their backgrounds.
“Rose is a rose in a rose….”
What a shame. Ruined a perfectly nice cover with fake award badges. Remove those, add more contrast, and increase the scale of the font and it would not belong here. (I might also reverse it so the dress doesn;t fall within the bleed or trim variance)
The title font is probably supposed to look woodsy or something, but it clashes with the artwork and bears such a close resemblance to an oft-used good font, it just looks wrong.
(My suggestions: use the good font and unslant the author name; and what on earth was the author thinking with those awards?)
Yup, that’s what all girls from the woods are wearing these days. So practical.
I imagine her parkouring through the forest in that outfit.
And the halftone pattern, I imagine?
♪ ♫ When halftone image angles conflict your eye, like moldy pizza pie, that’s a moire’. ♪ ♫
To be in with a chance of ruining your book cover with that ghastly badge, you just have to submit your book to those B.R.A.G. people with A NON-REFUNDABLE SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLAR FEE! They must be raking it in. :-/
Apparently B.R.A.G. no longer allows authors to send their books. B.R.A.G. recruits readers and supplies them with ebooks to rate; then, lucky top-rated authors get notified they can pay $75 for a medallion. BRAG FAQ: “The nonrefundable fee covers ebook acquisition and administrative costs, and the expense of maintaining our website.” Shouldn’t Yog’s Law apply?
Or the corollary, reviewers and raters make their money selling reviews and ratings, not by charging authors.
aww, shucks, I done lost out on my chance to get me one of those badges! For $75, couldn’t they at least provide a transparent background? Oh, wait…that’s probably another upcharge.
No kidding! I checked their site and it’s a veritable treasure trove of bad covers except for a few that were actually good…but ruined by the badge.
I noticed the badges on the BRAG site are oval, not in rectangles.
Added: checking newappleliterary, New Apple badges on books featured at their site are round, not in squares.
Judge Mental returning here. From the way the round and oval vanity seals were cut’n’paste square, it would make a cynic wonder if they had been properly paid for. I think I am am safe to opine they were incompetently applied.