The World’s Worst Book Covers
June 15th, 2010
While looking for a book cover for my post on self publishing, I stumbled across a blog run by a former librarian dedicated to “truly hideous” book covers. Then again, the subject matter of some of these books derserve awful covers. (William Shatner? Shattner Quake? What the…?)
Unless you’re self publishing, the cover is one of the few things out of the writer’s control of the final product. Bad covers can make a good book unappealing. That’s why any publisher will contract with or employ talented graphic designers to make their books pop off the shelves. Whoever did the covers on these blogs should be fired.
Just a few bad book covers you can find at that blog are the following.
You can see more bad covers here. Happy looking (or not).
Entry Filed under: art, book marketing, book review, books, pop culture, writing
7 Comments Add your own
1. Phil | June 15th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
ROTFL!
2. Danyelle Ferguson | June 15th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
I checked out this blog and it was so hilarious! Oh my gosh! Thanks for sharing. =)
3. Krista | June 15th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
Aak! Run! Away!
4. Abel Keogh | June 16th, 2010 at 9:28 am
@Danyelle I thought my author friends would get a kick out of it.
5. Hallie | June 16th, 2010 at 10:50 am
Probably not the place to write this comment but…
Just wanted to say that I just stumbled on and read your advice to those of us left behind after suicide. My 20 year old son shot himself in the head 2 months ago yesterday and I think I’ve died a little more each day.
Your words, although not necessarily words I am ready to embrace yet, hit home in small ways. Some of the statements you made just made so much sense. I plan to come back and reread what you wrote as we continue to travel down this hellish path.
Thank you for posting your words so that I could find them.
I miss my son so much it physically hurts.
Hallie
6. Rachelle Christensen | June 16th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Oh, so scary! Hilarious, but scary too.
7. Abel Keogh | June 17th, 2010 at 3:04 pm
@Hallie Thanks for the kind words. Glad you found the site helpful.
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