Man titty for everyone, I say. LA Times Book Blog wondered today if lit fic would sell better if its covers weren’t so anemic. If you recall, Stephen King had the same complaint regarding a book he had recommended. Fieldwork was a thriller set in Thailand, but the cover was of [...]

We know that there is alot of stock photography used in cover art today leading to very similar cover images:

Is it less damaging if the recycling is in the titles?

Two books. One Title. Both Contemporaries. Released one week apart. Oops. Possibly worse?

Diana Holquist’s RITA Nominee published [...]

We readers have lamented about the over use of stock images resulting in look alike covers. Apparently, this can happen with expensive (six figure +) media campaigns.
This fall, we will be treated to a new HBO show featuring Sookie Stackhouse based on works of Charlaine Harris. Apparently Sookie and her bloodthirsty-ness will appear [...]

Given that the 2007 Cover Contest voting is underway, I thought this would be the appropriate time to post my cover post. Because this is an image heavy article, you’ll have to click the “more” link to read the entirety of the article. I’m talking about trends in covers and cover identification today.
There [...]

The Cover Cafe 2007 contest is open for voting. There are seven categories and ten finalists per category. Go on over and vote for the best covers in 2007.

Little, Brown (and not Penguin UK) did some “extensive market research” to ascertain why US mega bestseller Nora Roberts isn’t making the same waves in the UK. Apparently it is the covers. The focus group readers said that the covers were too old and didn’t represent the “strong female characters” that the readers [...]

“A book's cover is absolutely the single most important thing about the
physical object that is a book.� —Betsy Groban, Little, Brown and
Company, Inc. (login required).
The cover of your book is the single most important promotional element. - Dick Claassen, Editor Awe-struck books.
I bought Dark Lover because of the cover, the title, and the [...]

Stephen King has been raving about Mischa Berlinski's debut novel, Fieldwork, but berating the publisher for chosing a terrible cover. King says the cover is akin to demanding people not buy the book. It’s hard to tell from the blurry trees that this is a thriller set in Thailand. It looks like, [...]