Wednesday 20 April 2011

In The Land of the Demon Masters cover.

          I wish these Kindle books, which I'm getting uploaded over the next couple of weeks, didn't need book covers. I'm a school librarian and book covers don't really make the job any easier in that part of it is trying to get the right book for the right kid. So maybe you have twelve year old boy standing in front of you and he's got a book he wants to take out which you know he's not going to like, and isn't going to read. You ask the kid why he wants to take the book out and the kid says because it looks like a good book. The kid hasn't looked inside the book. The kid hasn't even read the first sentence, but the book has a great cover and it looks as if it might be about vampires. But it's not really about vampires. It's about kissing vampires (thirteen/fourteen year old girls love these books!) and .... don't get me started about book covers. If you tell a kid that the person who designed the book cover almost certainly hasn't read the book ... it's like telling a kid that lawyers sometimes defend folk they know are guilty. Yes, it's a terrible world out there! It's a successful book cover if it makes you spend your money.

          But I do like this book cover. It was drawn by my daughter who is a glass artist. I gave her £20 for it, but told her if the pirates don't completely ruin this ebook business, she might be getting royalties from the book long after I've passed away. She read the book when she was twelve, but she couldn't remember what it was about. Until last week, the book was called Light in the Dark, but that doesn't sell the book. In the Land of the Demon Masters might.

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