Over “Photograph Your Own Wedding and Save Money”?
Catie
9 years ago
From the author’s interview:
“How do you approach cover design?
I look at the story and try to make the cover fit the story line. I personnally never buy a book because of its cover. I need to read a synopsis to see if the story intrigues me.”
So, this is a story about a presidential assassination? No? The president is the bad guy? Really? How does this cover fit into that storyline exactly? I’m obviously missing something here. Maybe it is a presidential assassination, with the president being the assassin?
Yeah, it’s quite obvious you don’t really look at book covers, Len. If you’d pay more attention, you’d notice that NO BOOK ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE THIS.
Another interesting tidbit: this is the only book with a review, and it’s two stars.
Actually, yes. The reviewer stated that he gives two stars to books that initially drew his interest with something or other, but failed to deliver anything. So, the idea was intriguing, the execution not so much.
Take Cover
9 years ago
I thought that thing was a weed wacker, but I guess it’s some kind of rifle. Now I’m wondering which would make the more exciting story.
I am especially glad that in the interview he clarified the DIY book he wrote on wedding photography is “non-fiction.” All the DIY wedding photography books I’ve been finding are fiction, and it’s just so frustrating.
Geeeze, this guy lives in the same major metropolitan area as I do. This is the second cover of his that’s bloody crooked; the “I Die Everyday” cover is out of whack, too. (Yeah, I know, that’s a play on words, and it wasn’t even deliberate.)
Bad, bad, bad, bad, and did I say, Bad? Maybe we should come up with a tag just for him. When I read the interview, @Catie, I’m absolutely convinced that the bit about “all my books have a twist at the ending” means some deus ex machine out-of-left-field weirdness, if these covers are any indication. (Although, ironically, one of the first full-length novels I ever remember reading was Zane Grey’s Riders, too).
@Takecover: the weed wacker, I’m sure. How could it possibly be worse?
@Catie: GMTA. (That’s an in-house tag we use around here: Great Minds Think Alike, pronounced “GIM-tuh.”) I’m betting money, it’s that sort of thing, exactly. LM buns off at the Goku, thanks.
@Cathy: Nearly snorted water out my nose about the fictive Wedding Photography crack. Perfect!
@Nate: yeah, you’re right, leave it. It’s perfect.
Can’t we get Disqus here, Nate? Pweeeeeeeeease? And it’s social, too…comments across the Net, and all that. Not that I’m some social media genius (in fact, I’m the social media Shortbus rider of all time), but I really hate this commenting plug-in or whatever it is. No editing, no preview…{sigh}.
Hrm. I’ll look into it. The WordPress plugin I tried to install to allow comment previews conflicted with the installed theme; Disqus might bring its own set of issues. I’ll keep you posted.
Maybe the fact that everything is skewed is a deliberate & subtle way to suggest that politics are skewed to the left? Or to the right?
Or maybe len is once again showing his readers that he just doesn’t care.
Do you think all his wedding pics are that unbalanced?
I will let Len himself tell you how I feel about his covers.
Take it away Len! https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/489103 I see covers like this.
I am getting this vibe that Len needs to be reported to the Secret Service…
The drones are already circling…
Over “Photograph Your Own Wedding and Save Money”?
From the author’s interview:
“How do you approach cover design?
I look at the story and try to make the cover fit the story line. I personnally never buy a book because of its cover. I need to read a synopsis to see if the story intrigues me.”
So, this is a story about a presidential assassination? No? The president is the bad guy? Really? How does this cover fit into that storyline exactly? I’m obviously missing something here. Maybe it is a presidential assassination, with the president being the assassin?
Yeah, it’s quite obvious you don’t really look at book covers, Len. If you’d pay more attention, you’d notice that NO BOOK ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE THIS.
Another interesting tidbit: this is the only book with a review, and it’s two stars.
Being generous with the stars?
Actually, yes. The reviewer stated that he gives two stars to books that initially drew his interest with something or other, but failed to deliver anything. So, the idea was intriguing, the execution not so much.
I thought that thing was a weed wacker, but I guess it’s some kind of rifle. Now I’m wondering which would make the more exciting story.
SVD-63 Sniper Rifle, System of Dragunov, Model of 1963, excellant weed whacker, very effective against dandelions and Triffids.
I am especially glad that in the interview he clarified the DIY book he wrote on wedding photography is “non-fiction.” All the DIY wedding photography books I’ve been finding are fiction, and it’s just so frustrating.
Bwahahahahahaaaaa!
Geeeze, this guy lives in the same major metropolitan area as I do. This is the second cover of his that’s bloody crooked; the “I Die Everyday” cover is out of whack, too. (Yeah, I know, that’s a play on words, and it wasn’t even deliberate.)
Bad, bad, bad, bad, and did I say, Bad? Maybe we should come up with a tag just for him. When I read the interview, @Catie, I’m absolutely convinced that the bit about “all my books have a twist at the ending” means some deus ex machine out-of-left-field weirdness, if these covers are any indication. (Although, ironically, one of the first full-length novels I ever remember reading was Zane Grey’s Riders, too).
@Takecover: the weed wacker, I’m sure. How could it possibly be worse?
damn you, autocorrect! If you can edit these, Nate, could you fix my deus ex machina, please? TY.
I could, but…
That’s exactly what I thought. My hubby has a running joke about how he would write the ending of *insert whatever*:
And then Goku swoops in on his cloud and beats everyone up with his magical extending pole http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee27/therock3/GoKuOnNimbus.gif
THE END.
For some reason, that’s what crossed my mind when I read that part of the interview. Can’t imagine why ;).
@Catie: GMTA. (That’s an in-house tag we use around here: Great Minds Think Alike, pronounced “GIM-tuh.”) I’m betting money, it’s that sort of thing, exactly. LM buns off at the Goku, thanks.
@Cathy: Nearly snorted water out my nose about the fictive Wedding Photography crack. Perfect!
@Nate: yeah, you’re right, leave it. It’s perfect.
Can’t we get Disqus here, Nate? Pweeeeeeeeease? And it’s social, too…comments across the Net, and all that. Not that I’m some social media genius (in fact, I’m the social media Shortbus rider of all time), but I really hate this commenting plug-in or whatever it is. No editing, no preview…{sigh}.
Hrm. I’ll look into it. The WordPress plugin I tried to install to allow comment previews conflicted with the installed theme; Disqus might bring its own set of issues. I’ll keep you posted.
Preview would be nice. Then maybe I could get image tags to work. If they’re even enabled.
And a working font tag would be neeto-keeno, too.
You will NOT post comments in Papyrus.
Thrill-kill
I tried but the font tag didn’t work. 🙁
Phew.