You gotta spend the money. You gotta spend real money. You just do.
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You gotta spend the money. You gotta spend real money. You just do.
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Pretty much, yeah.
If the cover looks right, people proceed to the blurbs… if the cover looks sketchy, they look elsewhere.
Mew
“Right” is very much a subjective target, and a moving one, at that.
(Shrug) I thought the covers for “Twilight”, “The Hunger Games”, and many other books coming out around the same period, sucked.
They certainly didn’t require much in the way of an artist to make.
But they still (somehow) managed to signal to their target audiences.
Meanwhile, they’ve stripped the whimsical covers off of PTerry’s works and replaced them with bland and nondescript.
Or take the original cover for “American Gods”. It’s an absolutely brilliant cover.
But that doesn’t imply that it was technically difficult to make.
Art is great. I fondly recall a fantasy series from the mid-late ‘90s that featured Scottish-like illustrated characters with a soft, almost watercolor, palette. (Wish I could recall the name of the author. I enjoyed them, but at some point I just stopped seeing them. In recent years I’ve learned that a whole lot of authors who I thought had retired around that time had still been putting out books. They just weren’t on the shelves.)