What crime covers do you like? - CrimeSpace2024-03-28T18:30:16Zhttps://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topics/537324:Topic:54183?commentId=537324%3AComment%3A54394&feed=yes&xn_auth=no
Gorgeous!tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-07-15:537324:Comment:550412007-07-15T03:31:35.911ZBarbara Fisterhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Bfister
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Gorgeous!
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Gorgeous! Thanks, but the flag emblem d…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-07-14:537324:Comment:549882007-07-14T21:21:47.381ZI. J. Parkerhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Ingpark
Thanks, but the flag emblem doesn't seem to work for a jpeg file image. I'm technically challenged. Sorry. How about putting up one of your covers? As I recall they are quite handsome.
Thanks, but the flag emblem doesn't seem to work for a jpeg file image. I'm technically challenged. Sorry. How about putting up one of your covers? As I recall they are quite handsome. oh, yeah! it even looks bad c…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-07-14:537324:Comment:549842007-07-14T21:00:43.643ZAnne Frasierhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/annefrasier
oh, yeah! it even looks bad close up. :O<br />
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my agent loved it<br />
everybody at the publishing house loved it<br />
some booksellers loved it<br />
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for me it was just a big WTF. i don't get it.
oh, yeah! it even looks bad close up. :O<br />
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my agent loved it<br />
everybody at the publishing house loved it<br />
some booksellers loved it<br />
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for me it was just a big WTF. i don't get it. My absolute favorite is the c…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-07-14:537324:Comment:548972007-07-14T02:23:40.457ZJulie Lomoehttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/julielomoe
My absolute favorite is the cover to my own <i>Mood Swing: The Bipolar Murders</i>, because I did the cover illustration myself. One of the benefits of print-on-demand publishing is that you have total control over the final product, including, in my case, the cover art. The response of readers I've met have been terrific - they always comment on the cover even before realizing I did it. You can see it on my Crimespace page or on my website.<br />
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Sorry for the blatant self-promotion, but I couldn't…
My absolute favorite is the cover to my own <i>Mood Swing: The Bipolar Murders</i>, because I did the cover illustration myself. One of the benefits of print-on-demand publishing is that you have total control over the final product, including, in my case, the cover art. The response of readers I've met have been terrific - they always comment on the cover even before realizing I did it. You can see it on my Crimespace page or on my website.<br />
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Sorry for the blatant self-promotion, but I couldn't resist. I find the covers of most mysteries rather uninteresting and generic. Just for the benefit of any v…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-07-13:537324:Comment:548732007-07-13T23:10:28.965ZNaomi Hiraharahttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/gasagasagirl
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I see what you're saying. I'm also wondering about the upside down "A." Don't know if it works from a distance.
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I see what you're saying. I'm also wondering about the upside down "A." Don't know if it works from a distance. Do you ever test a cover by l…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-07-13:537324:Comment:548652007-07-13T22:36:07.334ZAnne Frasierhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/annefrasier
Do you ever test a cover by looking at it from a distance on a bookshelf with other covers? I think that a cover needs to work from a variety of distances.<br />
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excellent point. i had a cover (Play Dead) that most people really liked. but on the shelf it just looked like blobs of brown and yellow mud. you couldn't make out what it was.
Do you ever test a cover by looking at it from a distance on a bookshelf with other covers? I think that a cover needs to work from a variety of distances.<br />
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excellent point. i had a cover (Play Dead) that most people really liked. but on the shelf it just looked like blobs of brown and yellow mud. you couldn't make out what it was. Please post ISLAND OF EXILES…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-07-13:537324:Comment:548622007-07-13T22:32:11.359ZNaomi Hiraharahttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/gasagasagirl
Please post ISLAND OF EXILES cover here, if you can. Use the American flag icon on the right.<br />
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They print the covers in advance, so they should be able to send you some extras.
Please post ISLAND OF EXILES cover here, if you can. Use the American flag icon on the right.<br />
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They print the covers in advance, so they should be able to send you some extras. Ah, thanks. Yes, I'm very pro…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-07-13:537324:Comment:548582007-07-13T21:56:40.296ZI. J. Parkerhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Ingpark
Ah, thanks. Yes, I'm very proud of the Penguin covers. Posters? Do authors get posters? I have begged for copies of the covers and framed these. They decorate my study. (I have to remind myself from time to time that I have actually published.) The credit goes to Julius Ohta, though I make suggestions. The overall design is his. The new one (ISLAND OF EXILES) is particularly nice. I know I'm lucky.
Ah, thanks. Yes, I'm very proud of the Penguin covers. Posters? Do authors get posters? I have begged for copies of the covers and framed these. They decorate my study. (I have to remind myself from time to time that I have actually published.) The credit goes to Julius Ohta, though I make suggestions. The overall design is his. The new one (ISLAND OF EXILES) is particularly nice. I know I'm lucky. I.J.--
I absolutely love you…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-07-13:537324:Comment:548502007-07-13T18:14:17.461ZNaomi Hiraharahttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/gasagasagirl
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I absolutely love your trade paperback original covers. A Japanese-Brazilian artist? Wonderful. Did your press provide you with posters? If so, I hope they are framed and decorating your living room.
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I absolutely love your trade paperback original covers. A Japanese-Brazilian artist? Wonderful. Did your press provide you with posters? If so, I hope they are framed and decorating your living room. I prefer original art to phot…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-07-13:537324:Comment:548462007-07-13T18:02:52.232ZI. J. Parkerhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Ingpark
I prefer original art to photographs -- especially in light of recent revelations that publishers use the same photos from the same common source for different titles. On the whole, I have found most of the dingy black and white photographs depressing, and the overt suggestion that the book takes place in some hellish and hopeless world of shadowy crime would turn me off if I didn't know the author or the series.
I prefer original art to photographs -- especially in light of recent revelations that publishers use the same photos from the same common source for different titles. On the whole, I have found most of the dingy black and white photographs depressing, and the overt suggestion that the book takes place in some hellish and hopeless world of shadowy crime would turn me off if I didn't know the author or the series.