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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2019-01-08 03:56 pm
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What Covers Are They On?

The drawback to using stock images for your covers is that if you grab a really popular one, it's used on many, many books.

This guy, titled "Monk, old," has been used as a grizzled warrior, monk, or warrior-monk type on many a cover.



Pagan, an anthology

Plantation Origins, an alien invasion book

The Keeper M/M shifter

The Chrysanthemum Trilogy: Tragedy I have no idea what this book is. Time travel?

Santa Claus: The King of the Elves a children's fantasy

The Chronicles of Luxaar Part 1 a fantasy short story

Tunnel X-19: A Deadly Skirmish a dystopian story

The Toymaker an 1860s London horror story

Page 50 in this GM's D&D sourcebook


There's probably more that didn't get caught by Google's reverse image search because the cover designer didn't just slap text on and call it a day but instead incorporated the image as part of a larger picture.


The other image I see everywhere is this striking picture of a sword hilt with a swash of red fabric sweeping around it. I can see why people are drawn to it.



Sun Tzu's The Art of War

Techromancy Scrolls: Avalon LGBT fantasy

The Prometheus Wars: Beyond Hades Mythology meets the modern day

Poster for Infidel some sort of Christian play put on by a Bible college

Swords of Darkness Sword & sorcery anthology

War of Darkness Children's Minecraft story

Exiles Christian fantasy

On every book in the Highland Moon series shifter romance

The Gift of Knowledge Christian fantasy

How to Do Spiritual Warfare Christian how-to


Basically, that one's a wonderful image that I wouldn't ever use. If I had a client who insisted on using it, I'd first try to talk them out of it and secondly incorporate it as a very small part of a larger composition.

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