Phillip Moonfire Shot-to-pieces
Pro Tip: If you’ve misspelled the FIRST WORD IN YOUR TITLE on your cover, most readers won’t trust that you’re any better with the rest of your words.
Phillip Moonfire Shot-to-pieces
Pro Tip: If you’ve misspelled the FIRST WORD IN YOUR TITLE on your cover, most readers won’t trust that you’re any better with the rest of your words.
Uncle Phil is looking stylish wearing Aunt Mabel’s sunglasses.
From eBook. independent small press, self-pub, whatever ends up here on LBC, doesn’t anyone look at the covers before hitting “publish”?
When I was in book
makingmanufacture 1969-2004 we had a gauntlet of proofreaders at the press, at the publisher, who all had to sign off before anything went to plate making then to the presses. What happened to quality control?Because the author, typesetter and publisher today are often the same one person, there would be less excuse, I would hope, for blatant errors to hit the market, if the producer cared.
But I must admit I have seen some pretty amusing stuff here. Lousy book covers make for cheap entertainment, but sometimes I am saddened or angered or both.
Even if his name really is Phillp, that’s still a lousy cover. And the misuse of those hyphens suggests this would be a painful reading experience. I’m not mad at you, Mr Cruit, just disappointed.
“Phillip Moonfire Shot-to-pieces” is the title everywhere — the Amazon book page, the title page of the Look Inside! preview; Phillip Chester Carlson (aka Phillip Moonfire) is the protagonist’s name in the text of the preview. Except on the cover where it’s “Phillp….” Pffft.
Let’s see, what kind of cover will make potential readers want to pick up my book? Ah, here’s a picture of some schlub in hanging out in a hotel lobby with a bunch of plastic flowers, perfect.
Spelling? Schmelling!
Who cares? You can tell he’s one cool dude by the shades he wears!
Cool dudes don’t need no stinkin’ spell checkers.
‘Phillp’ looks pretty chilled for a guy who’s shot to pieces.