If the question is, “Will Nathan still criticize the cover even if the book’s about child sexual abuse?”, here’s your answer.
If the question is, “Will Nathan still criticize the cover even if the book’s about child sexual abuse?”, here’s your answer.
Given this and the Eel Man, today’s theme seems to be “grainy and soft focus”.
A sensitive subject deserves a decently executed cover.
What is it with the crushed aspect ratio on all these recent covers? It is not impossible to resize an image and maintain aspect ratio.
Agreed/ If your story is a sensitive topic, you need to be even more careful with the cover design.
My gut feel is the picture was deliberately stretched to give the cover model anonymity. But that would be putting some thought into it.
Why not just use a black rectangle over the eyes to “hide” the model’s identity? That might actually make the cover interesting enough for someone to click through.
If a model is used for the cover rather than a victim, that should be anonymity enough + soft focus (soft focus not lo-res pixelation).
Scrunching the aspect ratio looks like someone sized the photo but entered only a horizontal percentage or did not click “maintain aspect ratio” when selecting a window size. Bad aspect ratio just looks careless to me.
The photo was probably too short to fit on the cover, so the only ‘logical’ solution was – stretching.
This cover is abuse. Every bit of it. Shame on you, Jean Moredon.
I think I’ll start a counseling program for cover abuse, maybe a support group too. These sad covers undoubtedly have issues that need addressing.
Why does she have a childhood fear from Jean Moredon?