Category - New Covers For Old

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…