Category - New Covers For Old

Some are improving. Some are flailing. You be the judge!

• Broken Hearted Ghoul (original here)
• Gold River (original here)
• Lady Semple’s Secret (original here)
• Dalton (original here)
• Most Feared: How I Met My Wife (original here)
• First Kill (original here)
• The Mists of Adriana (original here)
• The Man Who Fell From the Sky (original here)
• Destination Uncertain (original here)
• Reaping the Harvest (original here)
• The Broken Scale (original here)
• #Berlin45: The Final Days of the Third Reich, with a revised title (original here)
• First and Only (original here)
• Owned (original here)
• The Unseen Battlefield (original here)
• The Fall of Night (original here)
• Ancestral Realms: The Whale Whisperers Saga (original here)
• Army of the White Horse (original here)
• Shield of Skool (original here)
• The Deadliest Game (original here)

There you have it: Some good, some bad, some simply inexplicable. More tomorrow!

Honestly, I hadn’t realized how many of these there were.

• Jericho (original here)
• God’s Colonel (original here)
• Harriet Greer Grows Up (original here)
• Times of Trial (original here)
• Green Tea and Black Death (original here)
• Armageddon Girl (original here)
• Once We Were Human (original here)
• Others of Edenton (original here)
• An Adventure of Bunny Bertie and Blueberry Elf (original here)
• Eiathan’s Heir (original here)
• Eugenic Reprisal (original here)
• Angels & Bullies of St. Aelred High (original here) — predictably, there were charges or bullying when this cover was first featured, so I’m glad that wiser heads prevailed
• Lemurian Medium (original here)
• Things Every Goddess Should Know (original here)
• Mermaid Adventure (original here)
• Escape!, with a new title (original here)
• A Few Lives Lost (original here)
• The Back-Slide of Jimmy Hyde, with a new title (original here)
• Escape From Destiny (original here)
• Guilty Knowledge (original here)

Are there more to come? You know it!

Should we take the willingness of so many bad cover publishers to try something new as a good sign? I think we should.

• Tax Cut (original here)
• Cats’ Eyes (original here)
• Eye of Darkness (original here)
• Where Dragons Dwell (original here)
• End Run (original here)
• Chaos at Crescent City Medical Center (original here)
• Jack Who? (original here)
• All the Rest is Propaganda (original here)
• Click (a tale of revenge) (original here)
• Off Course (original here)
• Puppy Development Guide – Puppy 101 for Dog Lovers: The Secrets to Puppy Training without Force, Fear, and Fuss (New Dog Series) (Volume 4) (original here)
• The Sword and the Sorceror, with a new title (original here)
• Crash Course, with a new title (original here)
• Devil Ash Deceit (original here)
• Gateway to Nifleheim (original here)
• Guardian of Life and Death Book One (original here)
• As Snow Falls (original here)
• Carnivore Shore (original here)
• Mindful Clarity for Solutions (original here)
• Something in Return (original here)

What always stuns me are those covers in which a whole bunch of stuff has been changed except for the part that was bad to begin with.

Further revised covers on books that were previously featured on this site!

• Staplegun Logic: More Inhuman Resources (original here)
• Red Simon: Vampire Punk (original here)
• Killer Protocols (original here)
• Isabella’s Last Gift (original here)
• Firedrake: Volume One (original here)
• Mental Dental (murder by proxy) (original here)
• A Summer Wedding Death at the Riverfront Dog Park (original here)
• Penny Lane, Paranormal Investigator: The Ouija Board Mystery (original here)
• The Crystal Needle (original here)
• The King’s Honour (original here)
• Kyle by Fire (original here)
• Meddling Mona (original here)
• Ring Around Rosie (original here)
• Sleeping With a Wall Street Banker (original here)
• The Ruler of the Tailthon: The Alliance of the Free (original here)
• Caleb Stone (original here)
• How to Gain Wealth With Just One Word (original here)
• Thicketty (original here)
• Porn Star Princess 2 (original here)

A few of these authors decided that the secret to “improving” their covers was to crank the badness up to 11. Sigh…

Are they ascending to perfection, or slouching toward Bethlehem? You be the judge!

• Winter Fire (original here)
• Otherworld: Luckbane (original here)
• Henry Potty and the Pet Rock (original here)
• Watercolors (original here)
• Blood of My Blood: Villere House (original here)
• The Darkening. Book One of the Gift-bearers. (original here)
• The Perfect Woman (original here)
• Demons! In My Marriage Bed (original here)
• Timeless Mist (original here)
• Investing $10K in 2013 (original here)
• Memoirs Recalled Madness (original here)
• Soulsongs, Volume 1: Exploring the Law of Attraction (original here)
• The Face in the Mirror: a transhuman identity crisis (original here)
• Road to Christmas Past (original here)
• The Great Jackalope Stampede (original here)
• Christmas Crazy (original here)
• Plunging to the Bottom of the Deep Blue Sea (original here)
• Hello, My Love! (original here)
• The Last Witch (original here)
• An Unusual Christmas, with a new title (original here)

And there’s plenty more where that came from.

We shall endeavor to persevere!

• Finding Her Feet (original here)
• Quantum: Event Horizon (original here)
• The Stonecutter (original here)
• Fervor (original here)
• Darlin’ Irish (original here)
• Gentleman of Fortune (original here)
• When Forever Ends (original here)
• Lila’s Child (original here)
• How to Find a Job Without Losing Your Damn Mind (original here)
• Make Money From Home as a Google Rater (original here)
• Splashdown: First Contact? (original here)
• Blue Moon Vegetarian (original here)
• Rescuing Ladybugs (original here)
• Maggie’s Mondays (original here)
• The Measure of a Man (original here)
• Titanian Chronicles: Journey of Destiny (original here)
• Torn From the Inside Out (original here)
• Vampire Next Door (original here)
• Blood is Thicker Than Stupidity (original here)
• Madeleine (original here)

A few gems in here, but the majority of these self-pubbers only knew that something was wrong with their covers, not what.

Whose cuisine will reign supreme? (I know that makes no sense; I’m just running out of things to type here.)

• The Truth About Terra (original here)
• Time Ripple (original here)
• When the Longships Came (original here)
• Grey Matters (original here)
• …whatever… (original here)
• The Low Carb Revolution (original here)
• Spellbound (original here)
• Gravewalkers: Dying Time (original here)
• Five Feet or Less (original here)
• Changeling Winds: Episode Two (original here)
• The Lightning Caller (original here)
• Manannan’s Magic (original here)
• My Two Selves and I (original here)
• School of the Assassins (original here)
• The Slayer Rune (original here)
• The Lost King (original here)
• The UFO Disclosure Destruction Papers (original here)
• The Auschwitz Chapter (original here)
• Snagged (original here)
• Centalpha 6: Part VI (original here)

What with the Ross Richdale re-covers (“Meet the new Ross, same as the old Ross!”), plus several other “lateral” revisions, there’s not a lot to applaud in this batch.

Shall we? We shall:

• The Academy (original here)
• The Dead Don’t Bleed (original here)
• Technological Angel (original here)
• A Return to Sanditon (original here)
• Duke & Michel: The Mysterious Corridor (original here)
• Kade’s Dark Embrace (original here)
• Sword of Tilk: Book One: Worlds Apart (original here)
• Magelord (original here)
• In its Rawest form (original here)
• Key West Storm Warning (original here)
• The God Decrees (original here)
• Zomblog: The Final Entry (original here)
• Native Blood (original here)
• Hearts Unfold (original here)
• Johnny Came Home (original here)
• Lazar’s Intrigue (original here)
• Notes From the Firehouse (original here)
• Omega Seed (original here)
• Affinity & Trust (original here)
• The Druid’s Daughter (original here)

More tomorrow! Stay tuned!