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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
Two new fonts.
I did the purple just to get rid of the pink for now. But this post is just to see what you think of the fonts.
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Gregg:
I'm with the others. I think how YOU see the book is absolutely screwing with your design, which you're making somewhat clownish as if this is a "screwball comedy" a la the 1940's, with Carole Lombard, while your extract is
DEFINITELY more Tarantino. I think using those goofy or silly or comic fonts is
utterly misleading. You said you didn't want bad reviews from people who thought that the book was an Actioner, and then were put off by it being comedic, but...IMHO, you're overcompensating and making people think that it's a Lucille Ball Slapstick, when it's more Reservoir Dogs-meets-Rosie O'Donnell.
Just because your heroine shoves a stupid-looking trophy up some guy's nose doesn't make this
Lucy in the Factory with Chocolates. At all. Nor does it read very slaptstick-y to me. Like I said earlier, if there's humor in that passage, it's more like when Travolta whacked the guy in the rear seat, accidentally or revived Uma with the Hypodermic to the sternum.
Lastly, having now read this extract, I would ABSOLUTELY use a tagline on the cover, something like "A Black Comedy," or "A Dark Humor," or whatever. I would not leave it as is, no matter what you do with the fonts.
And the clowny/silly fonts gotta go. Those two you used in your last pink-backgrounded iterations are screaming "madcap comedy!," and that's NOT what you've written.
Offered FWIW.
Hitch