James: dude, that concept might be viable if it weren’t going to be seen at 200x300px, at best. The problem is, it looks like a BLACK cover with weird font choices. That drawing (or…?) would need to come up at least…4 shades lighter, to be good. As-is, it’s just what is essentially a black rectangle with three blobs of text on it, inexplicably hugging/wrapped around a dark blob that you can’t see–or even infer, mind you–until you zoom it to hell and gone. Take that cover, slap it on Amazon, put it on a search results page–and it’s doomed. There’s no “there” there, y’know?
![cover[1]](https://lousybookcovers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/cover165.jpg)
Actually, I think the artwork concept is a pretty good one.
However, the front choices…
James: dude, that concept might be viable if it weren’t going to be seen at 200x300px, at best. The problem is, it looks like a BLACK cover with weird font choices. That drawing (or…?) would need to come up at least…4 shades lighter, to be good. As-is, it’s just what is essentially a black rectangle with three blobs of text on it, inexplicably hugging/wrapped around a dark blob that you can’t see–or even infer, mind you–until you zoom it to hell and gone. Take that cover, slap it on Amazon, put it on a search results page–and it’s doomed. There’s no “there” there, y’know?
PosRein: Truth in advertising.