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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
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Agreed and in this day and age of Midjourney and 90 bajillion cat images on the endless list of stock image sites, there's no excuse for it.
HOWEVER, I would add that the first thing I tell authors and publishers is that the cover does NOT need to match the story or the characters. If the horse is brown, the hose on the cover can be a chestnut or a bay, or even something lighter.
The reader isn't
really going to remember. Will some? Sure. If it's Geralt of whatever, they'll remember
which Roach he's currently riding. But the cover isn't a guide, isn't a
companion book to the book itself--its job is simply clickbait, and the moment that click happens, it's done its job. Tortie or no tortie. It's the book's job to tell the story, not the cover's; it's the cover's job to move the reader into a spot where the book
can perform its job.
I mean...if you're a cozy cat mystery person, you'll click on that cover, tortie or not. Right? Right.
Hitch