Punishing a Good Deed

July 31, 2013

Pro Tip: If your cover is underwhelming, you can’t just fix it by applying transformations to your text.

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Nick

11 years ago

Here’s a new rule for budding cover designers:: if your cover could be recreated on Powerpoint with minimal effort, then you probably need to try again.

David

11 years ago

Judging by the title, the author did the cover artist a favor in the past.

Garth

11 years ago

There are multiple James Anthony Fratino series?

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