Greetings! What is your favorite LitRPG cover? And favorite overall cover? Do you prefer... Photo: Where the cover is made up of photography that is often blend together with some photo manipulation, and digital paint-over (halo, glow, lightning, etc.). Illustrated: The cover is entirely painted (digitally, or traditionally on a canvas). If anything comes from a photo, it's so blended into the picture, it looks like a painting. Typographic: Creative usage of text and fonts. Think Ready Player One. Vector: A combination of typography and shapes/lines. Think Armada. Feel free to link to the books that you really like the cover. For instance, something that when you see it, it pulls you right in. I had that when I saw Red Rising. Loved the cover and grabbed the book without knowing much. Great series. Do you have any experiences like that?
That's not funny! (Banned)... You can't just name every book of one author! Although, I do really like his Reboot cover. I like the game badges on the cover (E for Epic!), and the illustration is pretty neat.
This should be the immediate reply anytime @Dustin Tigner starts a new post. @Paul Bellow can you set up a macro to do this automatically?
Yes, that would be cool. I nominate @Dustin Tigner to curate the gallery and upload all of the images.
I always get the grunt work... haha. I think that could be cool. Would also be neat to know who created the art. Although, that takes a lot of research.
If authors are crediting their illustrators/designers (and they should) the information should be listed on their copyright page which is visible in the Inside the Book previews... of course, that's a lot of extra work per book.
Not on the forum. There's a WP plugin that does it, I believe. I could throw it on something like... https://covers.litrpgreads.com
Haha, that's awesome. As for looking in the book for the copyright - that's a great idea. I'll have to see if I can find that information in the Look Inside option.
I put add a line in my front matter with a link to the artist or service that created my cover/art. I can't say which is my favorite covers, because they'd all be MINE. I love my "Randy Elfmaid" covers, as well as the "Dreambender" covers. They are all drawn art. I have another cover by the same artist for a book I haven't finished yet that blows my mind. So you see, I'm kind of prejudiced in this area.
The only problem is that sometimes authors put the copyright page at the end of the book so readers start off with the story right away.
Hmm, most Kindle books starts after all of that. I haven't seen a copyright at the end, though I'm sure I'll run into that problem if you say it's happening.
