You could have thrown a dozen more tags onto the list; it’s difficult to think of any lousy cover tag that doesn’t apply to this cover.
Naaman Brown
8 years ago
The rule among lousy book covers today appears to be if verbiage was traditionally blurb on the back cover of a paperback or back or liner notes of the dust jacket of a hardcover book, hey, let’s cram it all onto the front book cover and be done.
Sorry it is usually not attractive to casual browsers and does not really help sell books to other than friends, family or old fans who overlook the mess.
Not to mention, surely, there’s some award for this? Some contest it won? Some really shiny, unreadable gold badge or emblem, to fill up that tiny piece of empty space, just to the right of granny’s head? We don’t want no stinking emptiness, mon.
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You could have thrown a dozen more tags onto the list; it’s difficult to think of any lousy cover tag that doesn’t apply to this cover.
The rule among lousy book covers today appears to be if verbiage was traditionally blurb on the back cover of a paperback or back or liner notes of the dust jacket of a hardcover book, hey, let’s cram it all onto the front book cover and be done.
Sorry it is usually not attractive to casual browsers and does not really help sell books to other than friends, family or old fans who overlook the mess.
But he’s the author of “The Epic Novel The Redhouse Project”. More capital letters equals more quality and you can’t hide quality on a back cover!
Not to mention, surely, there’s some award for this? Some contest it won? Some really shiny, unreadable gold badge or emblem, to fill up that tiny piece of empty space, just to the right of granny’s head? We don’t want no stinking emptiness, mon.