Some of these…hooboy. It’s a bit of a shame. As You Were seems like it has access to pretty terrific artwork, and then they ruin the covers, utterly, by crap text placement. I absolutely don’t understand the title and byline placement on the “before” and the after, while placement is improved, is still unreadable. A solid, real cover designer should have been able to do more than that.
Dungeon Calamity certainly improved, although again, the readability of the title is in question.
The rest all pretty much–unbelievably–got WORSE. It’s boggling, really. And Aztec Captive? Shame on you, man.
The new cover for Aztec Captive does have a clarifying effect on what kind of book this is at least; no one is going to click on the new cover thinking it’s a historical thriller. The cover is not good, but it does do an effective job of signaling genre.
I like it how “Desert Magick” went from “Award-winning author” to “Multi-award-winning author”. That’s what I call develApment.
Some of these…hooboy. It’s a bit of a shame. As You Were seems like it has access to pretty terrific artwork, and then they ruin the covers, utterly, by crap text placement. I absolutely don’t understand the title and byline placement on the “before” and the after, while placement is improved, is still unreadable. A solid, real cover designer should have been able to do more than that.
Dungeon Calamity certainly improved, although again, the readability of the title is in question.
The rest all pretty much–unbelievably–got WORSE. It’s boggling, really. And Aztec Captive? Shame on you, man.
Re Aztec Captive: I have no problem saying that the, um, aesthetic sensibilities of the target audience may not exactly mirror the mainstream.
The new cover for Aztec Captive does have a clarifying effect on what kind of book this is at least; no one is going to click on the new cover thinking it’s a historical thriller. The cover is not good, but it does do an effective job of signaling genre.
Ah, yes, my prehispanic heritage includes bondage and phallic statues.
I really like Dungeon Calamity and I also like the first concept of The Wizard from earth; it reminds me A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.