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Many thanks to DED for pointing out this author’s back-catalog to me. It should provide us with hours (well, minutes) of enjoyment.
Many thanks to DED for pointing out this author’s back-catalog to me. It should provide us with hours (well, minutes) of enjoyment.
How to hide the fact you suck at Photoshop? Just throw a filter over it and no one will be able to see. Like, anything.
Only a certified Photoshop master (which I am) could pull out all the stops for such a brilliant catastrophe. People in the group who know me, know I pride myself on obliterating the norms of book covers. You should see me in a purple bathing suit, only I look terrible with bathing suit, so I usual go without.
Why this is one of my BEST lousy covers and the book sells well (My flagship book). I might add, I just published my 24th today and the covber is particular wretched. With overall 53,000 copies of various lousy book covers in circulation under my tutelage, I wish to blind my readers with my dazzling effrontery. (BTW, I’m blind in one-eye, so I should only do half-covers, cyclops that I am). I love being part of this group and am in good company with all thouse other Lusy book covers.
Edward C. Patterson
In your defense, Eddie (may I call you Eddie?), the cover for your latest Southern Swallow book isn’t as cray-cray as all the others.
I’ll have to do something about that – lol, and you can call me Eddie or Blanche – I’ll answer to all (and none).I once stated here on this thread that my covers have a certain anti-marketing vision (I was a Director of Marketing in my Middle Age years). I took for my example the Cruikshank road, the one he paved for Dickens (Books perse didn’t have cover art then, but serials did). Despite this, I still have some of my readers sat they love my covers, all of which ruins my day. As a pioneer in Indie Publishing (even in my own book on the subject) I show authors how to create awful covers with no overhead and teach them that earnig readership from the inside out not the outside in.
Can’t tell if joking, trolling, angrily sarcastic, honestly clueless, genuinely warped, or mentally ill.
Mentally ill sounds about right. But the novels are a great read nonetheless.
Definitely joking, IMO. Which I’m enjoying by the way. Brave as well for stopping by to say hello.
Ooh! It’s like Where’s Waldo. I found Waldo! So excited.
My readers love to name the 5 characters they find, but there’s a 6th (a Cherokee Indian with sunglasses – Griffen Jones). We play the game in the next book in the series also, but then I go to “name that scenery.” There are 5 books in this series – 3,200 pages.
PS: The glamoru womandepicted is . . . a drag queen named Simone DeFleurry (he’s really Simon Geldfard from Brooklyn).
I see Joan Rivers, Justin Bieber, Dennis Weaver, Nancy Kwan, and a leathery old woman. What do I win? And don’t say this book!
A jade owl. One that looks as angry as the one on the cover.
You missed the Indian – well, I’m a native american – and you didn’t miss me.
You don;t want to win that Owl. It can rip your flesh off.
Okay. Found the Indian. He’s sandwiched between Nancy and leathery old woman. He looks rather under-nourished. I don’t believe he’ll make it to the sequel.
Not only does he make it to the sequel (in all 5 books), he’s in my latest (24th Novel) The Sapphire Astonishment published yesterday. That cover is not a Lousy as the others, unfortunately, but to Photoshoppers everywhere, I’ve included some flaws. BTW, my book on publishing and throwing together bad covers just went viral in Aistralia overnight on a FREE promotion – so expect losts of material in the coming days.
TMI. You really need to self-edit.
I’m enjoying being engaged by the group. I’m in the group too. I’m surprise other authors haven;t joined in for their covers. I’ve been meaning to invite them in.