Category - New Covers For Old

It’s good to see people strive for excellence. Even if they sometimes haven’t got an idea of what excellence looks like.

• The Gift of Knowledge (original here)
• Code Prodigal (original here)
• In a Pinch (original here)
• The Time/Transport Bubble: Cult of the Devil Worshipers (original here)
• Love and Legend (original here)
• Rumpled (original here)
• My Haunted Apartment (original here)
• Sword Striker (original here)
• A Melody For James (original here)
• A Book to Die For (original here)
• Melanie’s Evanescent Journey (original here)
• What’s Sooner to You is Later For Me (original here)
• The Promise of Forever (original here) — this one prompted a tedious waaah you’re all bullies response, so I’m glad the criticism finally sunk in
• Route Number 11 (original here)
• Jazz Baby (original here)
• Wrath of Michael (original here)
• A Rat For a Rat (original here)
• The Eyes of Tokorel: The Taste of Emotion (original here)
• Viking Warrior (original here)
• Twisted City (original here)

More tomorrow!

Presenting some people who’ve learned their lesson, and some who’ve learned… not as much as we’d hoped.

• Boucher’s World: Encounters (original here)
• Jadon the Sea Bound Ohnyx (original here)
• Looking For Lucky (original here) (this is one that showed both original and new’n’improved flavors)
• Passion and Ponies (original here)
• Missing, Assumed Dead (original here)
• The Devil’s Claw (original here)
• Into the Mill – A Judas to all Men (original here)
• Girl in Two Worlds (original here)
• New Olympus: The Armageddon Girl Companion (original here)
• Dog Briar (original here)
• The Druid Healer of Tone (original here)
• Blood Curse (original here)
• Nobility (original here)
• Phantom Memories (original here)
• Moscow Dreams (original here)
• The 10th Cycle (original here)
• The Goat Parva Murders (original here)
• Anya’s Story (original here)
• The House of War (original here)
• The List of Five: A Beginning (original here)

Well, there you have it. And then some.

I hope I’m not boring you with these. Give credit where credit is due, after all.

• The Page: The Year of the Dragons (original here)
• Dream Reunion (original here)
• Dragon (original here)
• Gills (original here)
• Bad News From Outer Space (original here)
• Never Buy a Condo and Other Things I Have Learned from the Practice of Law (original here)
• The Voynich Deception (original here)
• Mind’s Eye (original here)
• The Shelf (original here)
• Charged (original here)
• The Lyon Trilogy (original here)
• Murder, Lies & Chocolate (original here)
• Snowed Inn (original here)
• The Bazaar (original here)
• Land of Demons: The Proto-Colonization of Ezochi, an Alternate Model of Japanese Expansion (original here)
• Snorts and Wobbles (original here)
• Call of the Wolf (original here)
• Twitter Super-Charged (original here)
• False Flags (original here)
• Over My Dead Body (original here)

Lotta lateral moves in this bunch. Oh, well.

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.