[books] Cover art

[jaylake]

I was thinking random thoughts about publishing as I walked back to my hotel from dinner. (This is a sign that I continue to feel better - I’m no longer thinking random thoughts about cancer, by and large.) Back in stone age of the 1970s when I first started buying books myself, right through the mid-to-late 1990s when the Internet came into

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[sheelangig]

Oh well, yes. I don't buy as much in stores anymore. I have such a long back log on my Round Tuit list for Amazon or Alibris or Bookmooch, that I usually get books in the mail these days.

I also don't browse the library anymore. I just use their web site and pop in and out to drop off and check out the next batch.

[will_couvillier]

I have always loved good genre art. So, yea, I did get books by the cover as well as the book.

Probably why I still collect Magic game cards. It surely attracts some good artists.

[will_couvillier]

Oh, and I can even recall the artists that impressed me back when: Frazetta, Vallejo, Rowena, Freas, Barr are just a few.

[mroctober]

[lsaboe]

good, artistic, interesting cover art will draw me in but is rarely the deciding factor. the title, blurb and the first few sentences/paragraphs are what will influence me to make a book mine.

i will say tho' that bad cover art will turn me away, so guard against bad cover art--especially the ones with overly muscular men with square jaws and sweaty brows or women with parted lips and pointy boobs. ickickick