Comments on: The Company of Glass

By: SI

SI — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:22:08 +0000

Maybe instead of hiring a translator they put it through one of those online translators. They always get everything right….

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:30:30 +0000

James, a confession:

I was in Italy that week, I got a little drunk, I was walking past the Italian publisher’s offices, I went in, they were having a briefing meeting . . .

By: James Lovegrove

James Lovegrove — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:28:34 +0000

Yeah … AND THERE ISN’T A SINGLE ALBINO WARRIOR IN THE BOOK! At least, not in the English version. Who knows what the Italian translator might have put in.

By: SI

SI — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:27:25 +0000

It’s pretty cheesy… but it’s not too bad. You do get bonus points for not only having a mysterious cloaked figure but an albino warrior on there!

By: James Lovegrove

James Lovegrove — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:34:20 +0000

This one belongs to me and is pretty cheesy, actually (not to mention completely unrepresentative of the content): http://www.bibliotecasalaborsa.it/imgeventi/la-guerra-degli-alati.jpg. But Simon definitely had nothing to do with it.

By: James Lovegrove

James Lovegrove — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:27:19 +0000

I have nothing in my closet that I’m ashamed of.

No, wait, that didn’t come out right.

Ah bugger! Not that kind of “come out”.

Or that kind of bugger.

I’ll just shut up now.

By: CSA

CSA — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:58:49 +0000

I agree James, but at the same time you can still laugh the the covers for been cheesey!

You can look at 80′s mullets and shoulder-padded suits and athough popular in their day, you’d think twice (or more) before going about like that today. Your right that readers don’t care all THAT much but if you have two identical books:
UK: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416ZJJGYVNL._SS500_.jpg
US and original UK: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RYKYWGQ4L._SS500_.jpg

although i DO own the original UK version, if i was buying it now i’d get the slightly less offensive new UK version.

By: SI

SI — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:12:25 +0000

Hmmm, sounds like you have something to hide James. Almost like you don’t want Simon to point out something, possibly, a bad cover for one of your books! Mu hahaha!

By: James Lovegrove

James Lovegrove — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:54:09 +0000

As another of Simon’s authors (cf. Prof Roberts and Sir James of Barclay) I feel moved to point out that he has briefed and okayed a great many excellent covers, and the ratio of winners to duffers must stand at several hundred to one. And frankly — fantasy readers. Most of them don’t seem to care what sort of rubbish appears on the front of (and often, indeed, inside) the books they buy, so why should anyone else? Bring on the angry horsemen!

By: little mi

little mi — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:09:07 +0000

I’ve just noticed that one of the guys on the horses is riding with a bow in one hand and some kind of stick/spear(?) in the other which is some pretty impressive horse riding skills. Even more impressive if he can shoot the bow at the same time.

I think this cover would be ok if you lost the border and only had the one angry horseman on it. Its the group that makes it a bit much.