Lousy Book Covers – Page 935 – Just because you CAN design your own cover doesn't mean you SHOULD.

A Walk in the Wild

September 26, 2019

A Walk in the Wild

WIIILD, man.

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Addison’s Mark

September 26, 2019

Addison’s Mark

Here, put this stick between your teeth.

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All the Old Lions (A Thea Barlow Cozy Mystery, Book 1)

September 26, 2019

All the Old Lions (A Thea Barlow Cozy Mystery, Book 1)

The mismatched art styles are almost equaled by the mismatched fonts.

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The 10K Bug: In the year 9999, a computer bug threatens to destroy the inter-galactic civilization

September 25, 2019

The 10K Bug: In the year 9999, a computer bug threatens to destroy the inter-galactic civilization

Absolutely no good decisions were made here.

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FaceMate

September 25, 2019

Way to lampshade it.

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Haven 2

September 25, 2019

“Nice character portrait. Can you make into a zombie cover?”

“Sure!”

(BTW, the Amazon labels it as “A Post-Apocalyptic Harem.”)

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Easy as Falling off a Bike Book 5

September 24, 2019

Easy as Falling off a Bike 5

The “5” refers the grade level of the cover designer, right?

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The Latter-day Saint Archive.
Apologies for the silence; the day job occupies more time and energy through the fourth quarter (I watched two episodes of Highlander last week, and I still haven’t gotten my summary down in writing), plus I’m between sketchbooks so I don’t even have fresh sketches of the day to put into weekly omnibus posts (although...
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
I’ve caught up to my sketchbook, so it’ll be few weeks before I’ve got new sketches of the day. I’ll be posting some random repeats on Instagram and X in the interim.
HIGHLANDER: THE SERIES Rewatch: Season 1, Part VII
1:14 For Evil’s Sake – And since we’re now shooting in Paris, we’re going to open this episode with the Frenchest thing we can think of: Mimes. No, really. Murderous mimes, even. (Also baguettes.) There’s an Immortal assassin named Kuyler operating out of France who likes to use mime disguises, party magic, etc. to win...
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
HIGHLANDER: THE SERIES Rewatch: Season 1, Part VI
1:12 Eyewitness – Tessa sees what looks like a murder on a bridge visible from the window at a gallery, and tries to get the police to pay attention (hey look, it’s that same police detective EVERY TIME — the Seacouver PD must be really small). So naturally she takes it upon herself to be...
The Axiomatic Morality of Stephen Jay Gould.
The late Stephen Gay Gould is one of my favorite essayists; he combines subject matter about the vagaries and intricacies of natural history with an engaging delivery that showed him to be a well-rounded, endlessly curious man. But of course he (a liberal atheist-leaning agnostic cultural Jew) and I (a believing Latter-day Saint and political...