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Re: Cover Art Discussion
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It's important, I think, that the browsing bookstore reader be briefly captured with the imagery and stop for a moment to ponder "Hmm" at the minimum. That's the ultimate purpose of a book cover -- to catch the eye.
Per Jabberwocky, I've always wanted to know more about the Frumious Bandersnatch (I think that's it -- too lazy to look it up).
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Much as many idealist writers want to think otherwise, writing for publication is also a business and it therefore involves advertising and all the hardcore aspects of selling a product.
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Not at all well. If you delete the title and all other words, you've just got a sullen guy in a hoodie and what might resemble a bow. With no other info you really don't even know the time period let alone the principal character, and zero info as to it being Robin Hood.Graverobber wrote:I think a good measure of how well a cover fits a book is if you can guess what the book is about without the title or author to clue you in. How do you think this one measures up?
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AgreedGraverobber wrote:That's weird. I can reasonably guess the genre, sub-genre, and have a vague idea of even more
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Well, take away all the text. Now look at the picture. There's a bow but it might be from some fantasy world like Middle Earth. There's zero indication it's medieval era in our own timeline. And they guy could be a prince or soldier of fortune or thief or bow-for-hire or maybe a modern day adventurer.Graverobber wrote:That's weird. I can reasonably guess the genre, sub-genre, and have a vague idea of even more
So for me, yeah, I MIGHT think Robin Hood but he's NOT wearing forest green as we're told that he wore for camouflage. An all-black outfit is gonna stand out like a sore thumb in the forest, right? So the very non-use of the green hoodie would tell me that it's not RH at all but some other adventurer. And the bow only indicates a less-than-modern compound bow but has no indication or the historical era. In fact the bowstring is not typical of the Robin Hood era at all. It's more modern than that. (I know a little about archery, enough to discern the type of bow and fixings.)
So I'd actually be led AWAY from thinking it's old Robin and instead a fantasy warrior from a pure fantasy and non-historical story line.
And yeah, he IS sullen. But sullen because he's dispossessed per Robin Hood or angry at some supernatural or fantasy critter, that's unknown.
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Per the title, my book's title was deleted from the image so that I won't break forum rules for self-promotion. But the title is set in bold and crooked characters, shoved together as if in haste, with further implies the dark mood and hints of violence and bad stuff about to happen.
Those interested may PM me and I'll give you my website which will give the full image of the cover. Everyone I've shown the book to likes the cover artwork.