Sep 11 2012
The book cover as a marketing tool interests me. Whenever there is a good blog post or a talk, I stop and pay attention. But most of the available opinion, advice, and debate I’ve come across are centered around physical publishing, when a cover is meant to fetch you from across the store and get(…)
Jul 16 2012
30 Tremendous Examples of Tilt-Shift Photography – “Tilt-Shift photography is an amazing part of talent in which photographer utilizes his skills and technique of photography that develops tilt-shift lenses to beat the boundaries of strength of ground and outlook that normal lenses present” Bloggs 74 Let’s start the day out with something cool. I love tilt(…)
Oct 21 2010
I thought the title of this book perfectly matched the cover but probably not for the reasons that the publisher intended. Does this not look like the Regency version of a man in a car asking a little girl if she wants a piece of candy? In working on the new releases catalog, I found(…)
Sep 30 2010
It’s one thing to have vaguely similar art from one publishing house to another (or perhaps in some cases blatant copying of one cover by another house) but the reuse of the same cover art, the same look, perhaps even the same model with some fantastic photoshopping within the same house seems to cry out(…)
Sep 23 2010
I love CL Wilson and thoughtCrown of Crystal Flame was a grand conclusion to her epic Tairen Soul series but as a friend of mine said, “What is Bronson Pinchot doing on the cover?” I’ve never read Robin Owens but I have friends who are fans, ardent fans, of her work. She was saddled with(…)
Aug 25 2010
Cartoon covers have been pretty much axed from the romance cover catalog due to declining sales of books with those covers. I admit that I was never a huge fan of the cover, but neither did I find them totally offputting. There are worse things than cartoons, right? Today’s first entry is example A of(…)
Aug 19 2010
Covers fascinate me and a lot of blogs do the cover thing like the classic and can’t be duplicated cover snark by the Smart Bitches and so I’ve never posted about bad covers here at Dear Author. Nor about good covers. But I love to talk about them so I thought I’d institute a new(…)
May 6 2010
Cover Cafe ballot for the best and the worst covers of 2009 is up and ready for your votes. **** RWA is going to Disney! Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin resort will be hosting the 2010 RWA Conference due to the flooding in Nashville. The rooms are super reasonable: $149 for two AND free(…)
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