Oct 26
Art Direction: Lets just get Jim from accounting, he works out right? We’ll put him in my air-soft kit and spice it up a little. People who read books love that type of stuff. It will be just like a TV show, but on a book.
Published 2011
October 26th, 2011 at 8:57 am
Surely it has to be some sort of faux pas to put your own alternate pseudonym on your book cover — and in a bigger font that the ostensible actual author name, to boot.
October 26th, 2011 at 9:04 am
What’s brilliant is The Lost Fleet is highly repetitive. You should put the Ace covers up, because they’re laughably wrong. “Right, so we’ve got this series about unrealistically huge battles in space. Let’s get pictures of a bloke in space armour on various planets.”
October 26th, 2011 at 9:10 am
I asked Stark what he thought about this cover, but Stark wasn’t impressed. In fact, Stark swore.
Thank you. I’m here all week. Try the veal.
October 26th, 2011 at 9:49 am
Bada-Bum, Adam. 🙂
October 26th, 2011 at 9:54 am
JOHN G. HEMRY
Author of the NY Times bestselling series The Lost Fleet as
JACK CAMPBELL
A.K.A. author of the Fleeting Loss series as
BART FARGO
A.K.A. author of the Minnie Goes to School children’s books as
SALLY WUNDERBAUM
Also author of the bestselling fantasy trilogy Really Sharp Swords as
KIRK T. OLKIEN
A.K.A….
October 26th, 2011 at 9:56 am
The FULL review quote:
“Stark’s War reads as if Hemry has been there — because if it hasn’t really happened, people won’t bother — everything has to be Reality and True Confession these days, even Science Fiction, it’s crazy. Oy vey!”
October 26th, 2011 at 10:42 am
Yeah! Stark Wars! Darth Vader! Han Solo! Luke Skywalker! Princess – hey, wait a minute…
October 26th, 2011 at 11:50 am
Stark’s War – One mans crusade against the use of sleeves.
October 26th, 2011 at 12:16 pm
I imagined the author was doing a Jordan: having found fame (?) under a pseudonym, he now regrets it and is trying to re-establish himself under his real name.
Or:
I imagined the author was doing a Marathon: re-naming as Snickers for no logical reason. (Or Jif/Cif, Treats/M&Ms, etc)
October 26th, 2011 at 1:49 pm
“Stark! Yo, Sgt. Stark! Over here!
Hey man, you’re facing in the wrong direction. The war is that-a-way. And it might help if you pointed your gun AT the bad guys.”
October 27th, 2011 at 12:47 am
Wonder what the people Stark is fighting call the conflict. Kill the beady eyed yobbo with the receding hairline war?
October 27th, 2011 at 10:28 am
Is there any sillier sight than a guy (usually an actor) posing with a gun?
October 27th, 2011 at 11:49 am
Bad cover paintings may look silly, but bad cover photos, especially heavily Photoshopped photos, are in a class by themselves.
October 28th, 2011 at 6:24 am
Y’know, I really dislike the covers where they just photograph some model in a costume and add a background. That is soo boring. Say what you will about godawful painted covers, but at least they’re usually interesting/mystifying.
This is just “Blehhh…”
October 28th, 2011 at 11:22 pm
“The Lost Fleet as Jack Campbell” is a strange name for a book. Just saying.
October 30th, 2011 at 12:25 pm
Does anyone else feel that “Hemry” looks like a typo?
October 31st, 2011 at 5:10 pm
@Jane, Jack Campbell is just so full of awesome that he is considered to be a fleet unto himself.
June 21st, 2014 at 9:59 am
The only sillier sight than a guy posing with a gun is a guy in the far future posing with a gun from the present day (an FN2000) that’s got some neon lights on it for futuristicality.
June 27th, 2015 at 6:44 pm
Soldier boy puts me in mind of Matt Damon as portrayed in Team America: World Police. He looks as if he’s just about to bleat his name in a moronic monotone.
June 29th, 2015 at 11:28 am
It’s missing an “in” between “Jack Campbell” and “Stark’s War”.
June 29th, 2015 at 4:10 pm
Oh, NOW I see what he’s doing! He thinks the gun is a cellphone:
“Hello? Hello? Hellooo..?”
March 18th, 2016 at 12:42 pm
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