Thread: What do you think of this working cover?
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Old 06-16-2023, 12:47 PM   #101
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Originally Posted by gmw View Post
BUT Hitch's advice still stands as the primary consideration. The cover is about sales, which these days mostly means click-bait, everything else is secondary. "Secondary" doesn't mean it is ignored, it just means that it only counts after the first has been satisfied. Get half-a-dozen useful primary choices and the whittle them down or adjust them to fit secondary considerations.
I never disputed that.

My beef was about the extremely emphatic assertion below that that there is no other consideration at all in conjunction with the fact that amazon et al shove covers into readers' faces all the time with little possibility of escape.

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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
to be fair, let's not kid ourselves--that doesn't matter. The cover has one job, and one job only--it's CLICK BAIT. period. End statement, end of discussion.
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