{"id":2037,"date":"2011-03-30T16:57:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T23:57:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-02T14:31:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T21:31:13","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/2037\/","title":{"rendered":"How not to do a book cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything in this cover is done wrong:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cesspit.net\/misc\/crackd2.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Bauchelain (the one in the center) is described in the book as a lean, angular guy. Like someone you&#8217;d find in a library, and not like a bulky warrior. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cesspit.net\/misc\/bauch.jpg\">This one<\/a> was more fitting but it looks like he put on weight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; It&#8217;s not an easy book to sell, this one. It&#8217;s even worse when the cover gives bad expectations. Nothing in the cover refers to something in this book. The green hue isn&#8217;t even close to the kind of tone the story could have.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The forest makes no sense. As far as I remember there are no trees in all the book, and for the most part they move through a barren land\/desert.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; What&#8217;s written under the title is unacceptably misleading. This story has no connection whatsoever with the &#8220;Malazan Empire&#8221;. It&#8217;s so wrong that it&#8217;s not acceptable even as a vague cover blurb. It&#8217;s just completely false.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I really dislike this new habit of using real pictures or 3D art for fantasy books. There are so many valid illustrators out there. Use them.<\/p>\n<p>In general, it&#8217;s very bad when your publisher has no idea of what he&#8217;s publishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything in this cover is done wrong: &#8211; Bauchelain (the one in the center) is described in the book as a lean, angular guy. Like someone you&#8217;d find in a library, and not like a bulky warrior. This one was more fitting but it looks like he put on weight. &#8211; It&#8217;s not an easy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33,34],"class_list":["post-2037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-malazan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}