[Book Nerd Humour] Self-Publishing’s Worst Covers

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Self-Publishing’s Worst Covers [courtesy of Huff Post Books]

Be sure to come back and let me know which one you “like” best. My favourite?

The Hunger

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

38 thoughts on “[Book Nerd Humour] Self-Publishing’s Worst Covers”

    • The scary thing is that they obviously found these cover “designs” to be up to par. Can you imagine? It is horrifying. I guess all press is good press…Your theory is probably correct. They might sell an extra copy or three.

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  5. Angelina was the worst for me. How boring! I would not have given that book a second glance if I saw it on a book shelf. I would think it was put there by accident from gardening and landscaping :/

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    • Yeah, it certainly has a sad lack of effort. Why anyone, anywhere, at any time, under any circumstances, would want to read any of these books is mind boggling. I don’t like to see writers fail, but come on.

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      • You have to admire them for trying to self publish. At least I assume that’s what these are :/ but you’re right…I don’t know how anyone could find these acceptable for a book cover.

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      • These are self-published. Self-publishing is a force to be reckoned with, and is becoming increasingly popular and acceptable in the literary world. But there are good ways to go about it, and then there are these (demonstrably bad) ways. I don’t understand why anyone would go to the trouble of writing and publishing a book and then undermine the entire enterprise with a blatantly awful cover.

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  7. Those covers certainly got a few giggles from me. Two of them look like they were drawn with crayon O__O I’d say that my “favorite” is Ten Things Every Chistrian Needs’ cover.

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  9. I am fascinated by “It’s Just Magic!” I can’t imagine putting all that effort into the pseudo-folk-art motif on the front…hunting for all those livestock images… photoshopping them onto that hill… and what IS that blue vehicle? And, after all that, to spell “daughters” wrong.

    I think I want a copy of this.

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    • For your reading pleasure:

      It looks like the author realized that “daughters” was spelled wrong, and corrected it. All of her book covers are hilarious!

      BONUS “REVIEW” EXCERPT (from Druantia’s Braids): “L.S. Fayne has drank from the fountain of ambrosia. The O’byrne family series should be listed amongst the great.”

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      • Thanks for this! (“Has drank from the fountain of ambrosia” – too good!!)
        Have been going through the descriptions of the various books on Amazon and am AMAZED at the writing. One reviewer said, rather kindly, “…reminded myself of the old adage ‘never judge a book by its cover’.” In this case, I suspect we can.

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      • I will judge any book with a crappy cover. If you cannot be bothered to have a good cover for you book, then why should I go to the trouble of reading it? There are already way too many good books out there for me to bother with things like this. I will, however, take the time to mock them.

        There are so many bad books on Amazon. I mean, there are also amazingly wonderful self-published books, too, but you have to be discerning enough to wade through ones like these. Also, that “fountain of ambrosia” review has got to be a friend or relative. I know that Amazon has cracked down on that in recent week, but with millions of fake reviews like that on their site they cannot get to all of them.

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      • I know, it certainly looks like it deserves to be lambasted. That awful cover is entirely impenetrable; it gives absolutely no indication as to what the book is about. Not that it matters, because I will just assume that it is awful.

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