![cover[1]](https://lousybookcovers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/cover168-500x761.jpg)
This author’s covers all follow a regrettable pattern: A good stock photo, squeezed instead of cropped to fit the dimensions, and title and byline (in dull fonts) in the same spots without regard to how they affect the image.
![cover[1]](https://lousybookcovers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/cover168-500x761.jpg)
This author’s covers all follow a regrettable pattern: A good stock photo, squeezed instead of cropped to fit the dimensions, and title and byline (in dull fonts) in the same spots without regard to how they affect the image.
![cover[1]](https://lousybookcovers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/cover158-500x625.jpg)
Even by the standards of Bigfoot book covers already seen, this is notably bad. (h/t Jeff)

Historical fiction should be distinguishable from somebody’s digital scrapbook.

Leave it to the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (the credited authors) to make a scholarly dissection of a historical novel look like a UFO conspiracy rant. (h/t Curtis)