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Post by BlueAndGold on Dec 28, 2019 18:23:08 GMT
OK, I found a new way to attach... ![]() Attachments:
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Post by ronmiller on Dec 28, 2019 18:50:48 GMT
Well, anyone who doesn't like Saturn is crazy...but all by itself I am not too sure it makes for a very effective cover---especially swimming in sea of black as it is. Other than pretty much literally illustrating the title, it doesn't say anything at all about your story, its themes or ideas. For instance, there isn't even a suggestion that the book might be an "action-packed thriller [about] a young engineer who is thrust into a world of sinister interplanetary intrigue" nor anything that conveys a sense of "danger and adventure, tragedy and joy, and loss and reward through trials of personal discovery and rebirth in a desperate fight to bring justice to tyranny, love to the lost, and liberty to the oppressed."
And look at it at thumbnail size! With "An Odyssey in Rhyme" nearly unreadable, the book might easily be taken to be non-fiction.
I think that you ought to think about a cover that is a little more involving, a little more informative and a little more specific to the book. What I have read of your preview is very well done and very engaging...the cover needs to reflect this!
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Post by BlueAndGold on Dec 28, 2019 23:32:14 GMT
Ah! So I need to have an image of a bad-guy ship being lasered in half in the background with a couple of our heros fighting to save refugees in the foreground on a Bonnestell-esque landscape? Or something like that? Hmmm... That's a tall order, but I suppose you are right. that would certainly grab me. Maybe I can start with a bigger subtitle font as the very least. Thank you Ron! Very much appreciated!  |
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Post by ronmiller on Dec 29, 2019 1:44:21 GMT
Ah! So I need to have an image of a bad-guy ship being lasered in half in the background with a couple of our heros fighting to save refugees in the foreground on a Bonnestell-esque landscape? Or something like that? Hmmm... That's a tall order, but I suppose you are right. that would certainly grab me. Maybe I can start with a bigger subtitle font as the very least. Thank you Ron! Very much appreciated! Well, it might not have to be anything quite as dramatic as that, perhaps!  But the cover should say something about what the book deals with or has to say. |
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But the cover should say something about what the book deals with or has to say.