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Click for larger imageIt’s a Two-for Tuesday: Wraparound WTF
Good Show Sir Comments: Look what the Lovely Submit Button dropped off on our doorstep. Your guess is as good as mine.
Courtesy of “Anony-Mouse”
(Average: 5.88 out of 10)
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It’s a Two-for Tuesday: Wraparound WTF
Good Show Sir Comments: Look what the Lovely Submit Button dropped off on our doorstep. Your guess is as good as mine.
Courtesy of “Anony-Mouse”
(Average: 5.88 out of 10)Loading...
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December 8th, 2020 at 10:40 am
None of these are as good as Book Title by Author Name.
December 8th, 2020 at 1:02 pm
Or as good as Full of Praise Blurb by Famous Author.
December 8th, 2020 at 3:31 pm
“Not only is Author Name unrivaled in his class, he is in a class by himself.”
– Gordon Dickson
December 8th, 2020 at 4:09 pm
Pre-made covers for Extruded Fantasy/SF Romance Product? This is one of those things which is hard to tell if it’s a parody or not.
December 8th, 2020 at 4:11 pm
#1: “A million miles away…” is how far you want to be from this book.
#2: The twist is that the hunk is the one who has been Promised to the Alien Warlord…who looks more like Jabba with spider legs.
December 8th, 2020 at 4:15 pm
Not sure how these are “taken via a camera, by you” or seen in the wild at all. These look like stock self-published cover templates that have been partially modified to show how they might look. Nothing to see here.
December 8th, 2020 at 5:00 pm
I really love the all the books in the Alien Conqueror Chronicles! Especially “Engaged to the Galactic Gladiator” and “Betrothed to the Marauding Mutant”!
December 8th, 2020 at 5:06 pm
Spoonerism time.
1) Wook Bun
A Mile-eon Mills Away
Nauthor Ame
Optional Crap-Around Wover
2) Promised to the Whalien Orlord
The Alien Chronicker Conquerilles
December 8th, 2020 at 5:08 pm
Why the smoke? Are they setting the mattress on fire?
December 8th, 2020 at 7:16 pm
Covers recycled from _Fifty Shades of Blue_ and it’s less successful sequel, _Fifty Shades of Red-Violet_.
December 8th, 2020 at 8:11 pm
Dear Editor,
Once again I write to request you stop misspelling my name!
Sincerely,
Arthur Name
December 8th, 2020 at 8:18 pm
I’m hanging out for brief meaningless sex with the alien emissary. Or even Brief Meaningless Sex with the Alien Emissary. Don’t judge me, OK.
December 8th, 2020 at 8:23 pm
They must be cover concepts for ‘Star Trek: The Sexed Generation’ series. The optional reach around costs extra.
December 8th, 2020 at 9:10 pm
1. That’s not smoke. That’s Axe Body Spray.
2. Ichabod Crane … After Dark!
December 8th, 2020 at 9:12 pm
They look like templates for some self-publishing company.
But the text is running the wrong direction on the spine; it runs “up” in France (and maybe elsewhere in continental Europe) but “down” in the US and UK. That’s a weirdly random thing to get wrong.
December 8th, 2020 at 9:51 pm
Were these actually spotted in the wild, or were the images lifted without credit from the website of a cover designer?
Because I personally know at least one person who not only does the covers for her own novels, but sells off-the-peg covers like this at reasonable rates to other authors. It’s a lot cheaper and easier than finding, negotiating with, and paying artists.
Basically, these are from a book of samples, just like wedding invitations and the like.
(a few minutes later)
Et voila, an image search gives us the designer:
avdaldesigns.com
I don’t know her, but wish her well. It’s a living.
So @Bruce was correct.
Bad Show, Anony-mouse! For shame!
@Tor: hee! reminds me of @anon. “Wook Bun” would be a very hairy romance.
December 8th, 2020 at 10:16 pm
In related news: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/08/bad-sex-award-cancelled-as-public-exposed-to-too-many-bad-things-in-2020
December 9th, 2020 at 7:10 pm
Am I looking at a Word template?
November 12th, 2021 at 11:50 am
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