On having one’s cover show up here:
http://tmikemccurley.com/2015/05/lousy-covers/
At first I was angry (“Those bastards! I hope they get crabs, and then fall in a woodchipper!”). After that came sadness and all those other stupid emotions that one gets when any part of something they did is ridiculed. That’s natural.
But after a couple of minutes, I smiled. Why smiled? Because they were right. That cover was shit. A drunken aardvark missing two toes could have bettered that one. That was the work of someone who had no business designing a cover, who simply wanted to get his writing out there and was too industry-ignorant to think any better.
Bravo. And the artwork you’re getting from Arani? WWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY better. (In case he reads this).
I did indeed read it. Thank you. Her covers are wonderful.
What a gracious letter…and absolutely on point as well!
I cannot say that I am entirely crazy about Arani’s covers…but they are certainly infinitely better than what he had.
Agreed.
Many thanks. It would have been easy to be “that guy” and scream about being maligned, but the fact is that the covers were bad enough that I wanted them gone. I just took a long time going about it. Oh, and don’t tell anyone I’m gracious — you’ll ruin my rep!
What I don’t get is how The Erect Oak and Nickolaus Albert Pacione Delivers: A Library Of Unknown Horrors pop up in popular posts when there have been no new comments in months. ??
There may be a complex algorithm that weighs ‘time since posting’ with ‘number of views’ and ‘comments’. I suspect that ‘The Erect Oak’ got a lot of views here, and certainly got many comments.