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Marc
Marc
1 year ago

I think misspellings on the cover should result in automatic Lousies consideration.

Zsuzsa
Zsuzsa
1 year ago
Reply to  Marc

Agreed. I always have a bit of sympathy for those who have bad art because, well, my art isn’t going to be winning any awards. But those who can’t even be bothered to proofread their covers deserve all the mockery they get and more.

PhilO
PhilO
1 year ago

Google Translate tells me it’s written in French. So there, you uncultured louts!

Charles Cassady Jr.own
Charles Cassady Jr.own
1 year ago

I have bad feeling “Slimy” used to sell popcorn under name Orville Redenbacher.

Brad
Brad
1 year ago

But bowties are cool!

John
John
5 months ago

The cover has been corrected?

John
John
5 months ago

Before you knock the art, open the book and then decide, the book has a great message to kids as well. Much Better than AI driven artwork and generic text. It was meant to be minimalist style cover. The inside is anything but.

Hitch
5 months ago
Reply to  John

Hi, John:

Sorry but that defense–that it was your first book and all that, is not a good excuse. Telling us, or anyone, to ignore the cover and open up the interior and read it ‘before’ judging the core is…it’s terrible advice. Nobody will do that. They just won’t. When is the last time that YOU picked up some book with a crappy cover, from an author you don’t know, never heard of and decided, to just buy it, read it and THEN judtge the lousiness of the cover?

How the hell will they even find the book? You’ve slaughtered their click-bait; they’ll blow right past the poor-quality cover and go on to an engaging, charismatic cover, not yours. it’s that other book’s cover that will get them to that sales page, not yours. NOBODY will find your book is the bottom line. To read it and THEN later, appreciate the poor-quality cover, they’d have to find it and read it first–and how will that happen, without a cover to attract them. That’s just how it is.

Do you deliberately go after the fugliest girl in the bar, too, thinking that after you take her home and all that, you’ll what..THEN view her face, shape and all that? Somehow, I doubt it.

I wrote this (below) blog post in 2011–yup, 13 years ago: https://www.booknook.biz/tips-tutorials/cover-design-calypso .If you choose not to read mine, read Derek Murphy’s discussion, also on this same topic (why covers HAVE TO BE great): http://www.creativindie.com/8-cover-design-secrets-publishers-use-to-manipulate-readers-into-buying-books

Yes, I used to think what you do that covers don’t matter. I was an IDJIT.

Good luck, but…believing that a great story somehow overcomes a lousy cover is only valid when a Random House publishes the book. It’s never–never–true when an Indy publisher does. It’s just…self-delusion to believe that.

I’m sorry, I can see you worked hard on the book (although I can’t see a single real page inside the LookInside, mind you), but a small bit of effort on the cover would probably DRAMATICALLY change your sales rank for the positive. Good luck and I hope these posts here help you.

John
John
5 months ago

Give me a break it was my first one ice written and illustrated. Haven’t you heard don’t judge a book by its cover?

J.Tyler
J.Tyler
5 months ago

Almost done with my next one, written and illustrated.
“Oh No, Niko”