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Tag Wizard Comments: Nicola Alter writes the Thoughts on Fantasy blog and last year she set out to create an over-the-top fantasy book cover including all the standard fantasy clichés. As she wrote:

“I’ve encountered a few covers that take it a bit far, but I thought it’d be amusing to go even further, and have a bit of fun with the tropes of my favourite genre… so here is my recipe for a no-holds-barred, all-boxes-ticked, epic high fantasy book cover (accompanied by examples from the most clichéd design I can muster).”

Well, we here at Good Show Sir! consider ourselves the experts on bad covers. So we’ll be the judge of that!

So check out her post where she walks you through the steps:

How to Make a Clichéd High Fantasy Cover

And be sure to visit the rest of her site and welcome her to join us here at Good Show Sir: the home of ethnic and erudite book cover curation.

Published 2017

(Average: 8.33 out of 10)

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Bibliomancer Comments: Supermind is a very stable genius. The F.B.I. will never outsmart him.

Published 1963

(Average: 7.67 out of 10)

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To my great surprise I’ve realised that this in fact isn’t the original and somehow a familiar man-tiger has made its way into the Hammer Horror classic The Devil Rides Out!

Have a good evening and please remember not to pick up any Clavicles of Solomon that you might find. Who knows when – or how – the great RX might be conjured!

(Average: 8.67 out of 10)

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A bit late but we had the pleasure of talking with Ken MacLeod (kenmacleod.blogspot.com) and Adam Roberts (www.adamroberts.com) at the Edinburgh Book festival on Sunday. Very interesting talk of which we could have sat through for hours more. Both jolly nice blokes, who didn’t flinch when asked to sign my copy of Rx For Chaos.

So watch out future authors, you too might be asked to sign the Chaos!

(Average: 8.56 out of 10)

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Hey.

This is just a quick message for those who follow along here at Good Show Sir or for those that are passing by. I apologise for the lack of updates recently and I put it down to not actually having any more book covers in my personal archive. Within the next few weeks I am hoping to get more Good Shows and do a little bit of web site changes to make everything look that little bit more special.

I do know there are people who regularly head to this website even though it has only been up for two months and I have done next to no advertising. It’s much appreciated!! And remember, if you have any terrible book covers then please send them in. Together we can create something truely awesome!

Yours,
– Good Show Sir

(Average: 4.67 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Comments: Unsleeping Tom

Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!

Published 1980

(Average: 5.38 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Comments: Super-duper-human

Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!

Published 1971

(Average: 7.63 out of 10)

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Emster Comments: What happens when you light the entire box of fireworks at once? Tom was not going to stick around to find out!

Published 1991

(Average: 5.63 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Comments: “Freeze! Or the little ET gets a paintball round.”

Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!

Published 1972

(Average: 4.88 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Comments: “Check out my paper airplane gun.”

Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!

Published 1977

(Average: 5.88 out of 10)

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