You guys are funny! If you read the book you will see why I made this cover. Sorry you don’t like it. Just like the old saying goes, “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover” 🙂
“If you read the book you will see why I made this cover.”
You mean the book is all about how you aren’t a graphic artist, and yet believe that you’re competent to create a book cover that isn’t horrible to look at?
Doesn’t sound much like an epic spiritual journey to me, but whatever.
You’ve got this the other way around. It’s not the content of the book that’s supposed to explain the book cover, it’s the book cover that’s supposed to give some clue what’s waiting for us inside. And a badly designed cover suggests to me that the inside is just as badly written and edited. Because if the author doesn’t want to spring for a pro cover, chances are she hadn’t paid for pro editing either. It’s amateurish. This book cover does nothing to make me want to read the book, so I doubt any of us will read it to understand the cover.
The thing is, a pro designer can make the same image, but edit it properly and put the right font on it and make it look like an actual book cover. It’s not so much what’s on it (even though it could be less boring) but how it’s done, and it’s done badly. Amateurish. This book cover is not selling your book.
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Dorothy got to Oz, but never left the house. So she just sat by the window and got old. Or something.
If epic equals going all white, then, yes. And trees out the window. Epic equals a crappy pic of trees out a window.
Well…
Sorry to say…
Nothing about this is epic or spiritual. Ugh.
I like how the picture of trees was pasted so that it covers up part of the curtains at the top of the window. Nothing artificial about that!
I’m not sure anything “epic” has ever happened in an easy chair.
At least, nothing I’d want to read about.
Is this picture supposed to be a proof that ghosts exist? Are spirits spiritual?
You guys are funny! If you read the book you will see why I made this cover. Sorry you don’t like it. Just like the old saying goes, “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover” 🙂
How else is the reader to judge whether they want to read your book if not by the cover you have chosen to slap onto it?
“If you read the book you will see why I made this cover.”
You mean the book is all about how you aren’t a graphic artist, and yet believe that you’re competent to create a book cover that isn’t horrible to look at?
Doesn’t sound much like an epic spiritual journey to me, but whatever.
IF we read the book.
You’ve got this the other way around. It’s not the content of the book that’s supposed to explain the book cover, it’s the book cover that’s supposed to give some clue what’s waiting for us inside. And a badly designed cover suggests to me that the inside is just as badly written and edited. Because if the author doesn’t want to spring for a pro cover, chances are she hadn’t paid for pro editing either. It’s amateurish. This book cover does nothing to make me want to read the book, so I doubt any of us will read it to understand the cover.
The thing is, a pro designer can make the same image, but edit it properly and put the right font on it and make it look like an actual book cover. It’s not so much what’s on it (even though it could be less boring) but how it’s done, and it’s done badly. Amateurish. This book cover is not selling your book.
PS Catie – Yes, good point, my next book will include the “ghosts” for real. And spirits are very spiritual 🙂