However, I can’t help but look at some covers and
Since I’m a wannabe writer, I am a bit terrified of ending up with this fate if I ever have the fortune to have my work published. I don’t know if I can bargain to design my own cover (or at least a rough sketch of it) because I am almost a professional designer. Not having to pay for the cover design supposes to be good, right? (I won’t mind doing my cover for free if only that means I can get my way with the design.)
Looking at this cover, I have no idea what the publisher were smoking. Do bad covers sell books better than good ones?
May be most readers are secretly masochist.
One of Thai writers that I know just suffer from this issue (although it wasn’t exactly new to her, as her previous books have suffered the same fate.) The cover isn’t eyes-bleedingly horrible, and it looks kind of good if only it was done 20 years earlier. This cover’s true crime (which, unfortunately, is also the same crime that has been done to countless writers) is that it misleads what the story is about! If I happen not to know the writer or the story before hand, I would have think that I am about to read the story of muscled man wearing loin cloth slaying monsters with phallic symbol and bedding hot chicks.
I absolutely won’t have guessed that the story [called ‘Mysterious Academy: Time Reaper’ in Thai] actually features a pale emo-ish boy, a tough goth princess who is saving the universe, a bisexual vampire whose catchphrase is related to camel, and a sadistic lesbian exorcist. No manly man in loin cloth and slave bitch for you. Imagine the misery of readers who pay good money only not to find manly barbaric men in this book, or the goth fans who miss the opportunity to have just another book about vampires!
Seriously, does misleading target audiences do much good to the business?
-Your ever faithful reader [somewhat back from the dark pit of crunch time)
4 comments:
I'm so glad that your going to be on the Toilet Rice team
Me too. Should be fun :3
Bookcover are misleading sometimes. I like bookcovers that actually have something to do with the contents of the book.
Some books have really crappy bookcovers and end up being totally awesome...
Those who design the book cover must have enough knowledge of the story or else ther can't have idea on what the bookcover should be.The best way is to allow the writer to brief the designer of what the story is all about.....:)
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