Looking for an opinion on my book cover.

Not intentional. I'm using a font called "Distant Galaxy." Maybe it copied the Star Wars font?

 

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I'm liking this one a lot. What's wrong with it? Only thing I can see left to play with is the font layout.

 

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'molly' should be 'candy'

 

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Using the Star Wars font is going to be the kiss of death.

The publisher will probably object if its spotted in time.

 

In time? I still have six weeks before this thing goes to press. Consider it "spotted" by my trusty peer-review cohort here on SciForums!

 

Excellent work Swivel!

 

Thanks, Crunchy Cat! What started off as a mock-up for my publishing house's art team has turned into my first project with Photoshop and the finished cover. Here it is, (sans Star Wars font thanks to Carcano):

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Dude. I liked the old font way better.

 

you can't go wrong with comic sans serif.

 

Now you're just playing with me, right?

Looking into it.

 

Lemme know what you guys think of the book trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKE3018zMQ4

 

No.. I thought it looked cool.. Maybe you should do a poll..
I meant the original cover.. with the curvy font.

What's with the sound ?

Also, you should have some action scenes..right after the shadowy dude.. Otherwise pretty good.

 

Honestly, the music is a disaster and the text gives little indication of either the back-story or the quality of your writing.

Your trailer needs to set the stage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-story

In fiction or film, a back-story is the history behind the situation at the start of the main story. A back-story may include the history of characters, objects, countries, or other elements of the main story. As a literary device back-story is often employed to lend depth or verisimilitude to the main story. The dramatic revelation of secrets from the back-story, as a useful technique for developing a story, was recognized as far back as Aristotle.

 

Heres an idea for the music.

Pick a classical symphony, like from Mahler for example, nothing well known, and find the crescendo. Use 2-3 minutes of the music leading up to the crescendo...where your text and images will end on the crest of anticipation!

 

Good idea. But not Mahler. Please... not Mahler...

(jk, of course. But I sat through his 7th recently and still haven't regained my sense of balance)

 

Yes, Mahler appeared when it was becoming fashionable to write disorientating music.

I was actually thinking of the Japanese film 'Ran'...the burning temple scene which uses Mahler's music, starting around the fifth minute.

http://hd.ku6.com/show/MV4eiy6r1YmywApd.html

Tchaikovsky's symphony no.4 has several brooding parts leading up to stormy crescendos.

If you go back in time to Mozart the music gets too cutsie and delicate...courtly or religious.

Japanese drumming might work as well...the all nude Taiko ensemble for example!

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/56404/taiko/

 

Final edits are complete! The publisher is going through them right now, the book should get paginated on Monday, I'll have a review PDF out to a few authors next week, and then we're about three weeks from print!

Several SF members are getting credit in the book for their input way back in the rough-draft phase. I've been very pessimistic about this project since day one, but after this last round of edits, I have to say: this is a great book. Not just a good or decent read, but a great book.

 

Awesome but the text angle does not match the reflection angle
I think you should hook that up so the text appears to be on the reflecting glass.

 

Mills And Boon Cover Art.

I’ve not read your story so I don’t know if the cover carrys across the emotional impact you’re trying to get across to the readers.
I say Mills and Boon because the cover says to me that this story is for ‘Chicks’ I don’t know if thats what its about?
I know romantic novels have a huge following so I can’t judge it on terms of salability I can only speak about good design.

The cover really is important because that’s the first thing the reader sees.
Being a boofy sort of bloke my tastes in science fiction run grungyer off beat stories and the covers I’m attracted to are those of Chris Foss who did many of Asinov’s covers, Ron Cobb, Sid Mead and H. R Giger to name a few off the top of my head.
I have to say speaking for myself if I saw that cover in a bookstore I wouldn’t pick up that book, because the cover implies things that I as a reader am not looking for.
However saying that I read most of Ann McCaffery’s Dragon Riders of Pern series, which have a huge emotional (Girly) content. The cover art of her books first attracted me to them with its fantastic alien looking dragons.
Damit I wish I could post some covers I’ve done, but this NG wont let me until I’ve done 20 posts.

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