Wow, you are so right. That description is…literally unreadable and incomprehensible. It’s like she thought if she dropped you in the middle of the book–where presumably, you might have some vague idea what she’s talking about–you’d be okay with it.
And what the holy hell is that RED thing, somewhere between the bear and the…dog? The thing that kinda looks like a pair of velour spotted pajama bottoms?
Man…this one needs a major rethink. I didn’t try reading the LITB; the description was enough to put me off it permanently.
That’s a gorilla. I like that there’s a little Chicago sign that’s been knocked down and is partially obscured by our ghost cowboy. The line of port-a-potties also gives the cover a nice sense of realism.
Say what you will about AI art, but I think it’s going to give independent authors a huge leg up when it comes to creating cover art. Hopefully not too big of a boost lest this website becomes irrelevant.
I could only see the gorilla AFTER you said it was there. Which is bad. The port-a-potties–firstly, nobody will ever see them in the thumbnail, nor in the typically-sized Amazon cover (which is smaller than what you see here by quite a bit). I thought that they were folding chairs, which did naught for realism. Even when I zoomed the cover, before and again now–they don’t really look like Portapotties, they look like folding chairs, mostly.
I use AI products all the time. But just like there are 3D faux, pseudo-human-art artists that can do work that you literally can’t tell from an actual photograph–I’ve seen it and used it and recommended it–that “skill” takes time to develop. Just as does using AI text writing and image-creation. Nobody is going to be DaVinci, in either–3D/faux-human drawing tools or AI tools–in 30 minutes.
I still have no idea what this book is about, other than presumably, some sort of supernatural genre. Could be literally anything. That’s not good. The potential buyer needs to see and click, just that fast, no wonder if the cover might, maybe, kinda, be in his wheelhouse. That’s my $.02 and I’m sticking with it.
And yes, that description needs to be buried alive or dead and reborn with a whole new outlook on life.
I mean…Port-a-Potties? Really? If you really sit down and think about it, for a book cover, unless the book is about owning a Port-A-Potty Business…WHUT? I mean, whut?
Brad
1 year ago
“Wolves, Beetles, Gorillas, Bears and Ghost Cowboys, Oh My!”: Rejected lyrics for Wizard of Oz musical numbers
What possible genre is this?
Ghost cowboy on animal and giant bug porn, perhaps?
That back-cover blurb is an unholy mess, too.
Wow, you are so right. That description is…literally unreadable and incomprehensible. It’s like she thought if she dropped you in the middle of the book–where presumably, you might have some vague idea what she’s talking about–you’d be okay with it.
And what the holy hell is that RED thing, somewhere between the bear and the…dog? The thing that kinda looks like a pair of velour spotted pajama bottoms?
Man…this one needs a major rethink. I didn’t try reading the LITB; the description was enough to put me off it permanently.
That’s a gorilla. I like that there’s a little Chicago sign that’s been knocked down and is partially obscured by our ghost cowboy. The line of port-a-potties also gives the cover a nice sense of realism.
Say what you will about AI art, but I think it’s going to give independent authors a huge leg up when it comes to creating cover art. Hopefully not too big of a boost lest this website becomes irrelevant.
I could only see the gorilla AFTER you said it was there. Which is bad. The port-a-potties–firstly, nobody will ever see them in the thumbnail, nor in the typically-sized Amazon cover (which is smaller than what you see here by quite a bit). I thought that they were folding chairs, which did naught for realism. Even when I zoomed the cover, before and again now–they don’t really look like Portapotties, they look like folding chairs, mostly.
I use AI products all the time. But just like there are 3D faux, pseudo-human-art artists that can do work that you literally can’t tell from an actual photograph–I’ve seen it and used it and recommended it–that “skill” takes time to develop. Just as does using AI text writing and image-creation. Nobody is going to be DaVinci, in either–3D/faux-human drawing tools or AI tools–in 30 minutes.
I still have no idea what this book is about, other than presumably, some sort of supernatural genre. Could be literally anything. That’s not good. The potential buyer needs to see and click, just that fast, no wonder if the cover might, maybe, kinda, be in his wheelhouse. That’s my $.02 and I’m sticking with it.
And yes, that description needs to be buried alive or dead and reborn with a whole new outlook on life.
I like that regardless of which of us is right on the folding chairs/porta-a-potties, neither option is a win for the book cover.
You are dead right. Neither is a winner for this cover, sadly.
I mean…Port-a-Potties? Really? If you really sit down and think about it, for a book cover, unless the book is about owning a Port-A-Potty Business…WHUT? I mean, whut?
“Wolves, Beetles, Gorillas, Bears and Ghost Cowboys, Oh My!”: Rejected lyrics for Wizard of Oz musical numbers