Bad Covers

adarkfox · Jun 1, 2011

...and not talking about the newest pop sensation doing a terrible remake of a classic rock song.

I was perusing a blog and saw a few book covers that had some notable flaws... so was wondering what covers y'all have seen that kinda made you giggle?

This is the one I saw earlier today... never mind his ring is on the wrong finger but daaang!

Jess Haines · Jun 1, 2011

Katiebabs features bad book covers in her WTFery posts every week.

I've seen some doozies.

Chris P · Jun 1, 2011

The ring issue is probably because they flipped the picture so they could lay out the text how they wanted.

But unless the model had her fingers go through a meat grinder, that just looks painful.

Alessandra Kelley · Jun 1, 2011

This thread worries me a little. It's easy to mock poorly-done art, and goodness knows there's enough of it about. To your credit, adarkfox, your example is a professionally published work where multiple people were involved who should have known better, and it's funny. But boy, it could easily turn nasty.

Silver King · Jun 1, 2011

Alessandra Kelley said:
This thread worries me a little...

It concerns me also. We've had dust-ups here in the past while ridiculing book covers that led to arguments and hurt feelings.

In addition, I don't feel comfortable dissing a cover from one of the most successful living authors of our time, for any reason.

So with that in mind, we'll put this one to bed.

Bad Covers

adarkfox

designs books | writes books

Jess Haines

Boldly going nowhere in particular.

Chris P

Likes metaphors mixed, not stirred

Alessandra Kelley

Sophipygian

Silver King

Megalops Erectus