HTML is made to eat them, and not all text boxes override it. Try using & nbsp ; but without the spaces in between. Let me just check if it works here . . .
BTW, it stands for Non-Breaking SPace. Easier to remember when you know what it means.
EricL
9 years ago
Don’t even look at the book’s blurb or the author’s bio, unless you enjoy trying to decipher someone’s mangled English (and she’s not ESL, but a native Californian, to the shame of my state’s educational system).
As for the cover, it would be much better if that plain brown wrapper covered the whole thing. What I can see of the artwork, looks to be a giraffe bouncing an orange on its nose, with a huge green onion wilting in the background. Yikes.
I think it is supposed to be the sun, but the sun is never squished like that, unless it is about to explode in the next second. At least oranges can grow malformed like that 🙂
2) It’s being used just because. Not because it actually complements the content, but because… well, just because. (In the same way that cargo cults imitate the actions of military servicemen who were briefly on their islands, because… well, because that’s just what you do.)
Wow. I had to go turn on the Kindle Cover Creator just to have a look. I didn’t see anything resembling this template (google wasn’t much help either) but those other templates are nice. Generic, yes, and a bit bland, but infinitely better than what you can find here under ‘bad font choice’, ‘layout woes’ and probably even ‘font boredom’. You could still destroy it with refrigerator art, granted, but there really is no excuse why anyone should end up wearing the above tags when all they had to do is use the template, for free (and let’s not even get into the pre-made covers you could buy for cca $30). But no, they think they can do it themselves. So they end up with a papyrus title of weird placement. It’s just infuriating.
Okay, I did some googling, and I have formed a theory:
Cargo cults are cults in “primitive” nations that try to have good things happen to them by imitating technological things…airplanes, etc, in the hopes that real airplanes will land and give them stuff. (In a nutshell.)
I’m guessing that the reason that this is a cargo cult template is because the diagonal line looks a lot like the Da Vinci code’s cover…so the author is imitating a successful book in hopes that her book will also be successful because of that.
Okay, I get it now it is a standard template! Someone went to Amazon and picked it simply because they thought it looked cool. Dear God, Cargo Cult it is the Papyrus Font of Amazon!
Kathrite
9 years ago
Every time I look at this cover I just can’t get over how perfect the title is.
James F. Brown
9 years ago
Izzat s’posed to be a palm tree behind the “giraffe”? Looks more like a wilted green veggie left in the fridge too long.
Another possibility: maybe in some places on this planet they disguise cell phone towers as giraffes instead of as trees. That would explain the weird projections off the “head”.
Howard
9 years ago
This would make a great cover for a new edition of the Bible
“She has received a minister’s license from world Christian ship ministries. She fulfills her calling of God by ministering people baptizing people ,marrying couples, dedications and writing books, Mary Rincon is married with beautiful children of six. In Ocotillo,Ca”
Dear God, is right. The font and missing words in the attribution gives NO confidence in the finished product:
lllustrations Susan Haught And Mary Rincon
Okay – there were 4 spaces between “Haught” and “And” that got eaten when I posted. ???
A lot of text composition system concatenate multiple spaces to one space. I know the one I helped write in the 1970s did.
HTML is made to eat them, and not all text boxes override it. Try using & nbsp ; but without the spaces in between. Let me just check if it works here . . .
Yep, works. Look, four spaces!
BTW, it stands for Non-Breaking SPace. Easier to remember when you know what it means.
Don’t even look at the book’s blurb or the author’s bio, unless you enjoy trying to decipher someone’s mangled English (and she’s not ESL, but a native Californian, to the shame of my state’s educational system).
As for the cover, it would be much better if that plain brown wrapper covered the whole thing. What I can see of the artwork, looks to be a giraffe bouncing an orange on its nose, with a huge green onion wilting in the background. Yikes.
That’s a orange!!!???
I think it is supposed to be the sun, but the sun is never squished like that, unless it is about to explode in the next second. At least oranges can grow malformed like that 🙂
It looks like a potato to me, but it may have been intended to be the sun. Or a yam.
Cargo cult template?
I’m not gonna lie…I don’t get it. I need somebody to explain it to me. I know it’s not as funny that way, but…
I don’t know what that means either. I will be honest.
Well…
1) It’s one of Amazon’s ready-made templates.
2) It’s being used just because. Not because it actually complements the content, but because… well, just because. (In the same way that cargo cults imitate the actions of military servicemen who were briefly on their islands, because… well, because that’s just what you do.)
Wow. I had to go turn on the Kindle Cover Creator just to have a look. I didn’t see anything resembling this template (google wasn’t much help either) but those other templates are nice. Generic, yes, and a bit bland, but infinitely better than what you can find here under ‘bad font choice’, ‘layout woes’ and probably even ‘font boredom’. You could still destroy it with refrigerator art, granted, but there really is no excuse why anyone should end up wearing the above tags when all they had to do is use the template, for free (and let’s not even get into the pre-made covers you could buy for cca $30). But no, they think they can do it themselves. So they end up with a papyrus title of weird placement. It’s just infuriating.
So the orange yam represents a C47?
Thank goodness I’m not the only one.
Okay, I did some googling, and I have formed a theory:
Cargo cults are cults in “primitive” nations that try to have good things happen to them by imitating technological things…airplanes, etc, in the hopes that real airplanes will land and give them stuff. (In a nutshell.)
I’m guessing that the reason that this is a cargo cult template is because the diagonal line looks a lot like the Da Vinci code’s cover…so the author is imitating a successful book in hopes that her book will also be successful because of that.
I think.
(What would we do without Google????)
Look, I got ninja’d by Nathan’s comment explaining the reason he chose the tag! Cool!
Okay, I get it now it is a standard template! Someone went to Amazon and picked it simply because they thought it looked cool. Dear God, Cargo Cult it is the Papyrus Font of Amazon!
Every time I look at this cover I just can’t get over how perfect the title is.
Izzat s’posed to be a palm tree behind the “giraffe”? Looks more like a wilted green veggie left in the fridge too long.
And as for the “giraffe”…
Oh, wait… Now I recognize what it is: a giant rotifer.
This may shock you, but… I think the orange blob might be the sun.
The palm resembles a rotifer? I found those in ditch water when I got my first microscope set in the 1950s. A trip down memory lane.
Another possibility: maybe in some places on this planet they disguise cell phone towers as giraffes instead of as trees. That would explain the weird projections off the “head”.
This would make a great cover for a new edition of the Bible
Dear God.
Did anyone see that cheap intimation bamboo frame on the right? By the looks of it this is not a drawing but a painting!
That’s an odd thing to use as a frame.
Why scan your artwork when you can just take a photo of it hanging on your wall instead?
“She has received a minister’s license from world Christian ship ministries. She fulfills her calling of God by ministering people baptizing people ,marrying couples, dedications and writing books, Mary Rincon is married with beautiful children of six. In Ocotillo,Ca”
You made me go there. YOU MADE ME GO THERE.
She has a licence from Christians from outer space? Freaky. No grammar schools on world ships, I see.