But… if you’re going to put text on the image afterward anyway, why did you put the crooked title on paper on the artwork before you photographed it?
Author - Nathan
Have you voted yet in the first annual Lousies? You know, the part of 2020 you wanted to be terrible?
In today’s installment of New Covers For Old, we have a few marked improvements as well as a couple that didn’t really get what the problem was to begin with.
Le sigh.
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Her leftward glance destroys any illusion of perspective; she’s just looking at her action figure.
The Wizard’s Rebellion: Book Two of the Sliprach Chronicles
“My shoulder’s been dislocated for forty-three years.” (h/t Ian)
And the excitement just doesn’t end! In addition to voting for the first annual Lousies going on right now, we’re also doing thirty days of New Covers For Old, in which those indie authors who have seen the error of their ways try to demonstrate how well they learned their lesson.
Long-time readers know how this works: What’s displayed is the cover at it was when it was first featured at LBC. Grab the triangle handle and pull it right to see the updated version. Warning: Not every update is an improvement!
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VOTING IS NOW OVER.
By popular demand! There were many notably bad book covers posted in 2020, but which were the absolute WORST? We’ll let you, the reader, decide in our first extra-unscientific and only moderately secure voting mechanism!
Here’s how it works:
Each link below goes to one month’s worth of posted covers. You may pick UP TO THREE on each month for qualifying status. (I’ve only included the covers that got at least one comment when originally posted.)
On January 15th, I’ll post Round Two.
If I need to after that, I’ll post a further eliminating round. (Democracy is hard.)
And on February 2nd, just in time to frighten groundhogs, I’ll post the Ten Ten Worst Covers posted in 2020!
The ballots:
- January 2020 Ballot
- February 2020 Ballot
- March 2020 Ballot
- April 2020 Ballot
- May 2020 Ballot
- June 2020 Ballot
- July 2020 Ballot
- August 2020 Ballot
- September 2020 Ballot
- October 2020 Ballot
- (no ballot for November 2020 because I was off NaNoWriMoing)
- December 2020 Ballot