Thursday, 2 November 2017

Bad Dog Finished Art

  

Here's the artwork for Bad Dog.
  
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11 comments:

  1. Fred2 November 2017 at 23:15

    Looks good.

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  2. Chris Stoesen3 November 2017 at 02:13

    That looks great. Makes me look forward to the book even more.

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  3. Paul O'G3 November 2017 at 06:19

    Very cool!

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  4. Stroezie3 November 2017 at 07:05

    Nice !!!
    Certainly piques my curiosity.

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  5.  Ashley3 November 2017 at 08:59

    Thanks guys, bringing my book to market is proving to be a bit of a learning curve,but the challenge it presents is an opportunity to be a writer. Something I've always wanted to be.

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  6. Wouter25 November 2017 at 19:52

    That looks cool!

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  7.  Ashley26 November 2017 at 14:44

    Currently I'm working on the cover typography, up to version three so far. Lots to think about and, the choices between flashy crowd pleasing typography versus a solid sense of craft that makes each book look like part of a series.

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    1. RogerBW26 November 2017 at 15:33

      You've probably come across arguments for both. There are some readers who think "oh, this is book 2 of a series, I won't buy it, book 1 isn't here on the shelf, I'll buy something else instead". There are others who like the covers to look uniform or spot the new one in the series because it looks like the last one.

      But I don't know any of these people. I don't know people who buy new books in shops, or based on the cover, at all any more. I don't know how many of them are left, or how they think.

      I'm guessing one of the cover design tasks is to make the thing look reasonable at 100 pixels wide…

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    2.  Ashley26 November 2017 at 16:23

      You know me, and I still buy books in shops, and often a book cover will attract me to read the blurb.

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    3. RogerBW26 November 2017 at 17:50

      Fair enough!

      Looking at the books I've read recently, the last one that wasn't a personal recommendation, a continuation of a series, or part of the Hugo-Nebula Reread, was David Hambling's The Elder Ice - and I think that was an algorithmic recommendation on Goodreads.

      (The usual warning applies: people who market to appeal to me are not marketing for bulk sales, to the point that "doesn't appeal to Roger" may actually be correlated with higher sales to everyone else.)

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    4.  Ashley26 November 2017 at 18:43

      I bought and read The Elder Ice after reading your review, and I suspect it's not the sort of book one would find in Forbidden Planet.

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