I love buying your books but PLEASE DON’T
- change the covers halfway through a series, could you at least wait until the series is over and then re-print? Or print the old versions as well?
- change the size of the paperbacks halfway through a series, now my bookshelf is messed up thanks
- if people aren’t complaining about the covers they are probably fine, don’t change them
Please DO:
- Put the number on the front of books and the spines so I know what order the series is in when I’m in a bookshop
- sell series in sets for a discounted price
- talk to the readers more about what they like regarding cover designs
- add illustrations to the inside cover pages, I love illustrations
- Spines in a series that make a rainbow, my heart
- COVERS THAT COME TOGETHER TO MAKE A BIG PICTURE
THIS
Shout out to the Dresden Files, who started as paperbacks, went to hardcover, and then started making the paperbacks in different dimensions than the original books, too.
That’s a shout of anger, naturally.You forgot to mention the random white covers in the sea of black.
also, again, COVERS THAT COME TOGETHER TO MAKE A PICTURE.
and a shout-out to those Terry Pratchett special editions that all look so right together.Can I add keeping an actual fucking blurb on the back (or inside sleeve of hardcovers), instead of three or four statements from other authors saying variation of “read this book”? Drives me mad when I see an interesting title/cover and then no actual description of what the book is about.