It’s been a while, so here’s a list of books featured on Lousy Book Covers which have gotten themselves new covers! I can’t claim that this site was instrumental in most cases (and not all of them are substantive improvements), but I can dream.
- Maine Attraction (original here)
- The Circle of Stones and the School of Evil (original here)
- Off the Bench (original here)
- The Stable House (original here)
- Murders in Crescent Valley (original here)
- Paycheck to Paycheck — It’s Personal (original here)
- The Iron Beast (original here)
- Texas Bigfoot in My Backyard (original here)
- Wizard Dawning (original here)
- Pit Dog Savior (original here)
- Hatching the Nest Egg (original here)
- Tempered Steel (original here)
- Test of Magnitude: The Torian Reclamation (original here)
- Border Town (original here)
- The Case of the Pig in the Evening Suit (original here)
- Halcyon’s Wake: Faith (original here)
- Death Dreams Deluxe (original here)
- The Galian Spear (original here)
- The Halfwit Knight (original here)
- Caldera (original here)
- The Oasis (original here)
- Valkyrie: The Vampire Princess’s Clothes (original here)
AHH. Why are most of them still SO AWFUL?! You’d think if you’re going to “improve” your cover… you know, you’d actually… IMPROVE it?
A lot of these “new” covers are epically worse than their originals!
There are one or two that are big improvements. But it seems either the other authors are not reading the comments, or don’t understand them.
The really sad ones are those whose original covers were the best.
It’s pretty much a lateral move in most cases.
Yeah, unfortunately, ‘not all of them are substantive improvements’ is something of an understatement.
I count three that have actually been fixed —
Hatching the Nest Egg
Death Dreams Deluxe
The Halfwit Knight
With an honorable mention for The Circle of Stones, which still doesn’t work for me but at least it’s a big step in the right direction.
As Viergacht says, at best, it’s a lateral move in most cases. Sometimes from one wtf all the way to a whole other wtf.
I love that “Wizard Dawning” just enlarged the text so you can’t see that he has no hands. So great. Two thumbs up– oh. Um.