Who is that in the window? I enlarged the picture 400%. I think it is Sponge Bob Squarepants! When did he become a Nazi?
J
11 years ago
If you look closely at the spider web it says ‘EINIGE JUDEN’.
Axolotl
11 years ago
The art isn’t actually too bad technically. It’s just the pencil medium looks completely out of place as a book cover. 🙁 And the dripping swastika and other dribbly bits don’t work.
Hello to all,
I am the author of this book as well as “All My Love, Detrick.” I just wanted to let you know that a great deal of time, effort and money were spent on both of these covers. I see that someone said that this cover had random imagery. You have not read the book. The images on this cover describe the story exactly. “A Flicker of Light,” is the tale of a young woman who becomes pregnant by a German soldier during the Nazi occupation of Norway. She is naively led to enter a home for the Lebensborn. When her lover is killed in battle she learns that without him the child will be taken from her. If the child is born defective it will be euthanized. So, terrified and seven months pregnant, penniless and alone she escapes under the watchful eyes of the guard. It is winter, the coldest time of year in Munich. She finds her way into hiding in the forest. Now, if she is to survive she must find help. The light that you see in the farm house window is the flicker of light that saves her. The man who holds her in his arms wears a Star of David, even in his own perilous situation, he is there to help her. The spider represents the black sign of swastika on the Nazi flag. In the begining of the book it is mentioned in a dream. As you can see it is dripping blood. I don’t want to go on and on about the book. I only want to assure you, that no image on my book covers are ever random. I don’t want to sound aggressive here, because I certainly do not mean to be. I appreciate your rights to your own opinions. And I thank you for taking the time to critique my covers. I just wanted to clarify where I stand. I send all of you many blessings and good wishes.
Thanks for taking it well. I labelled it “random imagery” because any cover that only makes sense once one has read the book is doing it backwards, as it were — a reader is not going to look at spiders and swastikas among blood-dripping branches and understand what it means.
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Who is that in the window? I enlarged the picture 400%. I think it is Sponge Bob Squarepants! When did he become a Nazi?
If you look closely at the spider web it says ‘EINIGE JUDEN’.
The art isn’t actually too bad technically. It’s just the pencil medium looks completely out of place as a book cover. 🙁 And the dripping swastika and other dribbly bits don’t work.
This is a really bad joke.
Hello to all,
I am the author of this book as well as “All My Love, Detrick.” I just wanted to let you know that a great deal of time, effort and money were spent on both of these covers. I see that someone said that this cover had random imagery. You have not read the book. The images on this cover describe the story exactly. “A Flicker of Light,” is the tale of a young woman who becomes pregnant by a German soldier during the Nazi occupation of Norway. She is naively led to enter a home for the Lebensborn. When her lover is killed in battle she learns that without him the child will be taken from her. If the child is born defective it will be euthanized. So, terrified and seven months pregnant, penniless and alone she escapes under the watchful eyes of the guard. It is winter, the coldest time of year in Munich. She finds her way into hiding in the forest. Now, if she is to survive she must find help. The light that you see in the farm house window is the flicker of light that saves her. The man who holds her in his arms wears a Star of David, even in his own perilous situation, he is there to help her. The spider represents the black sign of swastika on the Nazi flag. In the begining of the book it is mentioned in a dream. As you can see it is dripping blood. I don’t want to go on and on about the book. I only want to assure you, that no image on my book covers are ever random. I don’t want to sound aggressive here, because I certainly do not mean to be. I appreciate your rights to your own opinions. And I thank you for taking the time to critique my covers. I just wanted to clarify where I stand. I send all of you many blessings and good wishes.
Hi Roberta,
Thanks for taking it well. I labelled it “random imagery” because any cover that only makes sense once one has read the book is doing it backwards, as it were — a reader is not going to look at spiders and swastikas among blood-dripping branches and understand what it means.