THE HUNLEYS, ROBERT, CARMELA, AND PIA: THE LAFOLLETTE CHRONICLES (THE BAIRD-HUNLEY SAGA Book 1)
Also, according to the Look Inside, it’s “The Hunley’s.”
THE HUNLEYS, ROBERT, CARMELA, AND PIA: THE LAFOLLETTE CHRONICLES (THE BAIRD-HUNLEY SAGA Book 1)
Also, according to the Look Inside, it’s “The Hunley’s.”
Sooooo…lemme see. This is the Lafollette chronicles of the Baird-Hunley Saga of the “The Hunley’s” (single possessive) something-or-other of the Hunleys??
By DGuy, not to be confused with DeGirl? Or DeGenderNeutral?
Holy cow. This one defies opening the LookInside, assuming that you don’t want to inflict permanent, irreversible brain-damage on your logic centers. That LookInside should have “Here there be Dead BrainCells.”
I was wondering if D GUY was of the Hunleys, Bairds, Baird-Hunleys or LaFolettes. Well, so long as he’s not a Weasley or a Longbottom!
Wel, it damn sure ain’t De-Lovely or De-lightful, we can fersure say that.
I can’t understand why people think they can use anything as a cover. It saddens me that many books that seem interesting (this is not the case, the blurb is also bad) are lost in oblivion because the author thought that a careless cover is worth it.
A good cover and a good blurb sells the book alone, why is it so difficult for the authors to understand it?
There’s a mindset that the cover doesn’t matter. I think that some authors privately believe that if they admit that the cover matters that it somehow diminishes the quality of their book, or they think that if the cover does affect sales, that it’s a knock on their work. I see this all the time; authors are positively infuriated with the suggestion that a mere cover could affect their sales.
Curiously, these authors are the same that ensure that there is a bias against independent authors and that the industry doesn’t allow them to sell well their books.
As an independent author myself, the only major and consistent bias I run across is that our work is half-baked, cheap crap. And, to be fair, a lot of work out there is just that. That stereotype is honestly a fair and expected one that the industry has mostly brought on itself. By no means does that mean one can’t succeed or flourish in the independent author industry (and that’s coming from someone who hasn’t yet flourished).
Funnily enough, I often feel the opposite is just as true on here – I am regularly astounded at how many of these travesties have a standing 4 or 5 star rating with dozens of reviews or more.
I have always thought that, in most of these cases, the author paid for the reviews; I can’t find another explanation for those situations.
Have you read any of the 4 and 5 star reviews on those kinds of books, though? A lot of them that fit the situation you described look to be written by friends or family members just to “help” the author. Others, I assume, are paid for; and, in rare cases, I’ve come across some books that seem to have genuinely good writing on the inside, and people have loved the book. Unfortunately, the cover is just awful. In those cases, I often wonder how much better their book could be selling if it had a decent cover.