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Old 11-22-2015, 10:50 AM   #76
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Usually it was the cover that attracted me when I was perusing the racks in the local book store.
Now it is the story line and sometimes the reviews.
Miles Naismith Vorkosigan is my favorite character of all the books I've read, Belisarius would be second, and LMB has done a wonderful job creating and presenting the stories to us.
I'm not a fan of the new covers either...sigh...they are just as important today as they have always been.

I'd have the devil's own time trying to choose a favorite but if push came to shove I'd have to choose "A Civil Campaign".
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Old 11-22-2015, 06:23 PM   #77
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I'd have the devil's own time trying to choose a favorite but if push came to shove I'd have to choose "A Civil Campaign".
You mean the Baen cover of ACC ?
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You mean the Baen cover of ACC ?
That is an awful cover. Makes it look like He's Prince Charming and she's Cinderella. Also, it belongs on a romance novel.
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Old 11-22-2015, 08:23 PM   #79
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That is an awful cover. Makes it look like He's Prince Charming and she's Cinderella. Also, it belongs on a romance novel.
That's what it was. LMB's version of a Romance Novel.
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That's what it was. LMB's version of a Romance Novel.
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A Regency Romance Comedy of manners no less.
(With politics, bioengineered cockroaches, baby farms, and gene-level sex changes thrown in. But still, very romantic, very funny.)

My problem with that cover and the cover of the omnibus is that Miles isn't that tall! He likes his women tall but he isn't. Barely reaches their... ahem... collarbone.

If you're doing a "realistic cover" the characters should be recognizably themselves.
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Old 11-22-2015, 10:34 PM   #81
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A Regency Romance Comedy of manners no less.
(With politics, bioengineered cockroaches, baby farms, and gene-level sex changes thrown in. But still, very romantic, very funny.)

My problem with that cover and the cover of the omnibus is that Miles isn't that tall! He likes his women tall but he isn't. Barely reaches their... ahem... collarbone.

If you're doing a "realistic cover" the characters should be recognizably themselves.
That is Not Miles, that is Count Vorkosigan. Miles Father
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A Regency Romance Comedy of manners no less.
(With politics, bioengineered cockroaches, baby farms, and gene-level sex changes thrown in. But still, very romantic, very funny.)
Really true. That dinner party is straight out of the end of Georgette Heyer's The Grand Sophy but funnier than the original.

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That is Not Miles, that is Count Vorkosigan. Miles Father
Um, no. The cover image is supposed to be the Emperor Gregor, and *His* fiance. The whole book dances around that already-in-the-works romance, which triggers several characters to attempt to get married.

And while the romantic elements are strong, it's definitely SF, given the butterbugs.
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And while the romantic elements are strong, it's definitely SF, given the butterbugs.
Not to mention the whole taking place on another planet thing...
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Not to mention the whole taking place on another planet thing...
That's not important... there's all a romance sci-fi genre out of this world... and it's really romance
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Um, no. The cover image is supposed to be the Emperor Gregor, and *His* fiance. The whole book dances around that already-in-the-works romance, which triggers several characters to attempt to get married.

And while the romantic elements are strong, it's definitely SF, given the butterbugs.
Well, that might conceivably be Gregor...
...but Larissa isn't blonde and skinny.

And it would be an odd cover that focuses on the fifth or sixth most interesting couple in the story.
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Well, that might conceivably be Gregor...
...but Larissa isn't blonde and skinny.

And it would be an odd cover that focuses on the fifth or sixth most interesting couple in the story.

Accuracy in covers has long been a lost cause - they mostly try to tell the viewer the /kind/ of book, not the detail.

As I remarked about a Regency that has girl with horse on the cover and text when she refused to buy a riding habit.
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Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen

And, finally, the cover for the upcoming Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen. This was done in one pass, possibly not only for fatigue on both our parts, but because Ron had already done the cover for Baen, so we'd had a lot of discussion about it earlier.
The CryoBurn and Captain Vorpatril's Alliance covers are now UP (outside NA) and the direct-placement e-edition of Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen for the UK and other regions where Lois' US publisher does not go should be along shortly.

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blo...ition-of-jg-rq

And here is the author's ebook of Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gentleman-Jo...dp/B01BGTZ5EY/

ITunes international

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/gen...80495316?mt=11

http://www.amazon.com.au/Gentleman-J...dp/B01BGTZ5EY/

Try, if you are not in the US or Canada and don't have your own Kindle Store

http://www.amazon.com/Gentleman-Jole...dp/B01BGTZ5EY/
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Interesting, all of them. As a reader who fell in love with an online sample* of the short story "Borders of Infinity" (the single story) and then went on to buy all the ebooks -- I've mostly not seen ANY covers. Ebooks open straight to the first page, and bypass the covers. So I don't have any preconceived ideas of the series.
Your incorrectly generalizing. Most Kindle eBooks don't open at the cover. Most ePub eBooks do open at the cover.

However, a lot of eBooks don't have a proper cover so for those eBooks, it's irrelevant if they open at the cover or not.
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As long as we're responding to months-old posts: I'm almost entirely cover-blind. I read epubs--and even when their covers are thrust in front of me, I barely notice them. Don't get me wrong; I love visual art. It's just that I've got no use for art in my novels. I'm funny that way. I don't care how well a singer can dance, either.
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