Yeah, verily. All three of the characters on the cover are from different time periods. The quasi-Dickensian youthful W.C Fields in the absurd top-hat, the modern knocked-up chick in the puke-worthy green wrap top; and the less-than-antique cowpoke in the sky. Man.
This is an author who demonstrably is into keyword-stuffing. You can’t fault him/her for not trying. I devoutly hope that the actual writing is better than hinted at in this series of covers.
MWAHAHAHA. These are those books that the “regular” authors at the KDP are talking about! Aha, I get it! These are representative of the shorties that were being paid for “borrows” at the same rate as 100K-word novels, under the old system.
Previously, under the prior system, “a book is a book is a book,” for the purpose of being paid for borrows by KU readers. The more-traditional authors, shall we say, objected mightily to the idea that someone publishing a 10-page novelette was being paid exactly the same as those who published standard length works. But when other writers realized, early on, that this was the situation–virtually anything “original” could be published, even if only 10 pages long, and be paid equivalent with full-length novels–these types of books skyrocketed.
Hmph. No wonder those shorter-book authors are now complaining rabidly all over the KDP fora!!
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If she’s widowed, who’s beating her?
That is a LOT of adjectives.
Is half-faded cloud cowboy looking down her dress?
Yep.
If it’s the old west, why is she wearing a cocktail dress….and the other guy looks like he belongs in a Charles Dickens novel?
Yeah, verily. All three of the characters on the cover are from different time periods. The quasi-Dickensian youthful W.C Fields in the absurd top-hat, the modern knocked-up chick in the puke-worthy green wrap top; and the less-than-antique cowpoke in the sky. Man.
This is an author who demonstrably is into keyword-stuffing. You can’t fault him/her for not trying. I devoutly hope that the actual writing is better than hinted at in this series of covers.
I get my 19th century fashion sense from my repro 1897 Sears, Roebuck & Co. mail-order catalog; those vestiments are jarringly anachronistic.
Ha, one of the reviews on th Amazon page complains that the title is longer than the book itself. Apparently it’s only ten pages.
Very strange.
MWAHAHAHA. These are those books that the “regular” authors at the KDP are talking about! Aha, I get it! These are representative of the shorties that were being paid for “borrows” at the same rate as 100K-word novels, under the old system.
Previously, under the prior system, “a book is a book is a book,” for the purpose of being paid for borrows by KU readers. The more-traditional authors, shall we say, objected mightily to the idea that someone publishing a 10-page novelette was being paid exactly the same as those who published standard length works. But when other writers realized, early on, that this was the situation–virtually anything “original” could be published, even if only 10 pages long, and be paid equivalent with full-length novels–these types of books skyrocketed.
Hmph. No wonder those shorter-book authors are now complaining rabidly all over the KDP fora!!
10 pages? Isn’t that a short story? Yeah, I’m nitpicking.
Well, women sure dressed like that in the Old West, didn’t they?
Time traveling touristas.