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Originally Posted by gmw
Re question mark: I've decided that don't much like "Navy Seal Rescue?" If you really wanted a question mark then I'd use "Navy Seal: Rescue?" but then you run into trouble with it looking like "Rescue?" is a subtitle, which was not intended. ... I doubt whether the question will make a huge difference either way (to the reader interpretation, searching or presentation).
Re the dark background cover: The only reason I can read the orange text on the dark blue is because I know what it says. It seems to me that this is much more likely to be interpreted as non-fiction (or serious fiction) than the light cover; those icons don't say "comedy" to me (on the other funny thriller the icons are not comic either, but are in comic juxtaposition). OTOH the balance of this cover is good. 
ETA: Gregg, if you took the "One nuclear..." text back to just two lines as I suggested earlier, you could have "One nuclear crisis" on the left of the missile, and "Two idiots" on the right of the missile. This may (just guessing) give the balance that is currently missing from that version of the cover. |
Thanks gmw. Well, maybe I need to lighten up the tagline. I don't know though. I think with the font and the icons, I can't see anybody mis-interpreting this as non-fiction. And then there's my blurb. I don't think it will be a problem.
But I'm leaning toward the cover with the blue and the orange parachuters. The cartoonish characters in the other are just kind of grating on me.
Question: Do you think I need the question mark in the title? (I thought I needed it to amp up the idea that the book was fiction, but now I'm leaning away from that thought. And like you were saying about search issues.)