Don’t Judge A Book By Its Cover. Except…

Hi there! I’m back, a little late today, sorry about that, But! I come with something to show everyone who cares about this sort of thing :3

 

My new cover for the third book in my Things in the Night Series! Yay :) I love it so much. What you’re looking at is the cover and the spine, the back isn’t done yet, but will be in a couple of days.

Anyway, aside from patting myself on the back, I was also curious about the readers here who do look at books, see what has to be an amazingly epic looking cover, and then immediately assume it has to be a great book. Even if the book isn’t something you would necessarily put on your keeper shelf, how much of that cover influences you to later say to your friends, “Yeah, I read it, it was pretty good.”

I’m wondering if a terrible cover would have the opposite response. I sometimes think that a book which is written not too badly, but has a beyond terrible cover on the front, might make people talk about how bad it was, assuming they’d read the entire thing. Or at least half the book at all.

I tend to shy away from books that have awful covers. I’m not talking about the books that just have covers that aren’t to my taste, but I mean the ones that are obviously made by someone with no experience in graphic design. (Lol, I did that once as an experiment. That cover didn’t stay up for long, let me tell you) Which is proof that at least some other writers do the same thing as readers, despite knowing that it’s supposed to be what’s on the inside that counts.

I’m curious about this. How many of you avoid books with terrible covers, and how many of you are willing to take a chance on them? When reading fanfiction of our favourite series books or worlds, I’m guessing it’s a little different since almost no one makes cover art for those, and the only way to judge if it’s a good story or not would be to read the actual story itself.

 

Cheers

~Mandy

 

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