I've found the cure for DWJ's Cover CURSE
x-posted from dianawynnejones
Diana is quick to mention her Travel Jinx and her Writing-stuff-that-then-happens-to-her Jinx, but one thing she can't, in all politeness, mention is her Book Cover CURSE.
Seriously, How can someone so awesome have accumulated so many uncannily bad covers?
There are the American ones that look like they were painted on index cards, sloppily, and then blown up to dustjactet size, the British ones with text an inch and a half high, but hardly any picture, that copy of Hexwood which was a recycled image from another book... It's quite a list of grievances.
Happily, there are some new covers out in Angle-land that are downright spiffy! I spotted them in the LibraryThing cover galleries and was delighted with them.
Wonderful! I love all the details from the books that the artist has managed to incorporate into the cover art - that's what I love to see in a cover, an illustration by someone who's actually read the book!
Diana is quick to mention her Travel Jinx and her Writing-stuff-that-then-happens-to-her Jinx, but one thing she can't, in all politeness, mention is her Book Cover CURSE.
Seriously, How can someone so awesome have accumulated so many uncannily bad covers?
There are the American ones that look like they were painted on index cards, sloppily, and then blown up to dustjactet size, the British ones with text an inch and a half high, but hardly any picture, that copy of Hexwood which was a recycled image from another book... It's quite a list of grievances.
Happily, there are some new covers out in Angle-land that are downright spiffy! I spotted them in the LibraryThing cover galleries and was delighted with them.
Wonderful! I love all the details from the books that the artist has managed to incorporate into the cover art - that's what I love to see in a cover, an illustration by someone who's actually read the book!