{"id":8932,"date":"2021-04-05T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=8932"},"modified":"2021-04-05T13:30:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T17:30:19","slug":"book-sightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=8932","title":{"rendered":"Book Sightings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What makes a good book cover? An important questions because, as we all know, people are going to judge our book by the cover before they even pick it up. The old admonition not to do that is for naught.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While you might think your cover should be \u201cunique\u201d and \u201cuniquely you,\u201d marketing consultants say no to that. They say it should look the same<\/em> as the cover of the books the reader typically chooses. Comfortably familiar. This must be the reason we see so many thriller covers with silhouettes of women walking alone at night, often into the woods. (Who does that? First of all, you\u2019d ruin your shoes.) Here are the covers I\u2019ve liked best far this year (and one outstanding cover from 2020). Maybe the best advice is, \u201cif it works, it works,\u201d in which case none of the other rules count.<\/p>\n\n\n\n