[Native]

For me, (admittedly a small market,) I usually know which aisle of the store I've stumbled into. Besides, we're not talking essential taters and beans here, nor even soothing elevator music, but hopefully art that expands humanity a bit. With literature, words are the art, and pictures shouldn't get in the way of the words. The title is the draw that leads me to the back cover or e-book blurb. My own cover concerns aren't with the front, but the back. Seems I wrote a blurb from the perspective of what I see in my own book, which is kind of hard not to do. Anyway, yes I believe covers are a hugely important first impression on a stranger who has better things to do than decipher whether you're worth their time. I just think pictures are distracting. Just my two cents, I'd likely sell out to a different philosophy tommorrow if someone showed me three cents.