04-10-2009, 12:26 PM | #1 |
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Book Cover Inspiration
If you're a Writer 2.0 (a very catchy name I suppose for all us "unpubs") then maybe this site will give you some inspiration for designing your next book cover.
http://bookcoverarchive.com/ |
04-18-2009, 07:31 AM | #2 |
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thank you for that site ! i love looking at book covers ; a well done cover is a work of art. the cover for dashiell hammett's "the thin man" caught my eye there but partly also because it's one of my favourite books ever. those covers are really gorgeous.
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There are so many half-arsed book covers out there, predominantly in the best-seller releases and mass market paperbacks. It's a pleasure to see a book cover that's been thought out and yet leaves something to the imagination for the reader. A good book cover will lead me to reading just as much as a blurb.
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The cover and title are the first things that even get me interested in a book. If I don't like the cover I usually won't give the book a second look. So, it better catch my eye. Very important part of a book for me at least.
That being said, I can count many many books that had great covers that I was never able to finish. Booooorrrriiiinnnngggg. |
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maybe we should start a new thread in the lounge just to talk about movies from the 30's and 40's. i could go on about them for a long time...
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Are you reading my mind? Bogart, Bacall, Edward G Robinson, James Cagney, Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracey, Jimmy Stewart... I could go on and on.. really I could Most of my movie collection is from the 30's/40's era, so I think a separate thread might be quite fun.
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