Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words?

Q: What makes a great book cover? Is it the title or the graphics? Do you have favorites that you think work? 
-from Susan
I think both title and graphics are important. With titles, they say shorter is better, but I wonder. It’s hard to keep them separate or make them distinguishable as a brand when they are words like INTERLOPER, THUNDER, STRIKE, SECRETS, etc. Maybe I’m prejudiced but one exception to that general complaint is the series by Reece Hirsch about cyber crime, in which t...