Where’s Chuckawalla Bill’s Cabin?: A True Tale of Being Lost in the Hi-Desert
as a man who appreciates well-executed sketch art, I can nevertheless say that this is not sufficient.
Where’s Chuckawalla Bill’s Cabin?: A True Tale of Being Lost in the Hi-Desert
as a man who appreciates well-executed sketch art, I can nevertheless say that this is not sufficient.
Obviously a millenial. On the whole, you people never look beyond the collagen-injected cover of any topic you approach, including your sordid relationships. If you had checked the content and reviews on this book, you would have discovered some actual protein inside. But then, that would require a bit of effort.
“Obviously a millenial.” Completely wrong, but go ahead and make assumptions if it makes you feel better.
“… including your sordid relationships.” The hell? I’ll ask my wife of thirty years how “sordid” our relationship is.
“If you had checked the content and reviews on this book…” News flash, chief: If I have to check the content and reviews in order to appreciate the cover, YOUR COVER AIN’T DOING ITS JOB.
But hey, continue to cast aspersions and make laughable assumptions rather than consider the possibility that your cover is substandard. It won’t help your book or anything, but it’ll sure make you feel all rosy-warm inside.
Nathan, Be happy to hold up my 48 year marriage to a girl I went to high school with up against yours anytime.
The cover was done by my teenage granddaughter. Sure it cost my book some exposure from shallow people like you, but I will do anything, anytime to further the desire of my kids to take on new challenges.
When you survive what I did up in the Hi-Desert, you begin to look at what life has to offer below the surface!
As far as your cover opinion; the true literary classics, for the most part, had either no cover art, or what self-annointed experts like yourself would label: ‘Substandard Art.’
As far as my millenial comment: Keep on calling that casting aspersions while listening to Nero play the final dirge on his violin.
In closing, what makes me feel all warm inside is reminding myself of just how precious little time surface gazing lemmings such as yourself actually have left to diminish what is left of your intellect.
Kevin
(Pata)
So, now we’re “surface gazing lemmings” because we know the purpose of a book cover and you don’t?
I want to draw a distinction: You made a lot of demonstrably incorrect assumptions about us simply because we didn’t like the cover your granddaughter did for you.
But because you exposed your character here for all the world to see, it’s an evidence-based conclusion that you’re a judgmental, self-righteous, puffed-up, preening, fucking asshole to the core. I feel sorry for your granddaughter, your wife, and anyone else who is forced to associate with you.
Fortunately, we are NOT forced to associate with you, so you’re now welcome to be a judgmental, self-righteous, puffed-up, preening, fucking asshole on the rest of the internet.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Butthurt.
You desperately cling to your chronological maturity as a defense, yet your responses are consistently juvenile. Resorting to straw-man arguments and unrelated assumptions regarding ages and attitudes are not effective rebukes.
You certainly aren’t helping young people like your granddaughter, either, by rewarding mediocrity rather than challenging them to become exceptional at whatever endeavors they choose to pursue, nor by integrating their talent in such an uninspired manner.The skill behind the illustration is largely lost by the poor implementation. It’s boring.
Is Hi-Desert that private resort in Yucca Valley? It doesn’t seem like a place one would need to “survive”.
It’s nice that you have some good ratings, from folks who clearly enjoy your writing. Truly, it is.
BUT, those people are buying your book based upon their knowledge of your extant work, your name. They are buying it in spite of the cover. Because you have a background in writing and publishing, you can, in a way, ‘get away with that,’ but you would be doing far better if you had a cover that actually attracted those who’ve never heard of you. (I noticed, by the way, that many of your reviews are from people who are not verified purchases and address you as “Kevin.” ???)
As Nathan says–having to click through to the book, to find out why we should ignore and eschew the cover and buy the book anyway, means that 99% of those who ever glance at your cover won’t click through to buy it. That’s how that works. The cover is clickbait; the person clicks and then reads your description, which hopefully then leads them to your LookInside, which hopefully then leads them to buy. You’re wasting that entire first opportunity. But hey, it’s your book.
I suspect that there are exceedingly few millennials here. I’m well past retirement age and so too are most of those who comment here (you can tell from the humor, the jokes, and the references)–so, you may want to shelve those assumptions.
At seventy years of age, having survived what this book is about, well, thanks for what at least, in your case, was well-intended criticism, but when my granddaughter presented me with her sketch, I decided to do it this way. Her pride and excitement toward furthering herself mean more to me than an attractive form of ‘clickbait’ solicited from a stranger with only a profit margin as an artistic goal!
As far as the millenial comment: I challenge any of you seasoned citizens (myself included) to consider the present state of moral decline, crime, collapse of civil order, etc. and make a case for that being cultural progress.
Best,
Kevin
Nobody is judging you or your book, bro, just the cover, ie, a significant marketing tool for your book.
Unlike you here casting aspersions on people and being all condemning and contemptuous. So mature, definitely not an Author Behaving Badly.
Thanks, Syd
Of these three comments, I’ll accept yours humbly.
Kevin
Kevin: you clearly stated that your granddaughter’s sketch’s importance far outweighed your desire to sell your book. That’s the beauty of self-publishing–you get to decide what’s important to you. You did, and you chose to use her sketch, for her pride and excitement. That’s your purview, your domain, your call. And that means, from your explanation, that you knew–you knew–that the cover art was far from being commercially appropriate and suitable for the purpose. (Otherwise, there wasn’t any real choice, now, was there?) I mean, the book is for sale, for actual real money, is it not?
It was a noble sacrifice on your part, that being the case.
So, why the ire? You made your pick; you deliberately made your book less saleable to encourage your granddaughter’s interest in art or whatever it is she’s pursuing, so…I assume you would have expected these very types of comments. You oughtn’t to be surprised.
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