I realized that I didn't do a single cover love post in 2024, aside from the end of the year one, so one of these is long overdue! My last one was about fall vibes, so why not spring this time? I know it's not quite spring yet, but this was all I could think of, and it feels too late for winter-themed posts. I might regret this next month when I have no post ideas, but oh well, doing it...
It's that time again for book covers! I think I have fewer than usual this year, believe it it not, since I read fewer books. Still have plenty though! I've said before and will say again that a book doesn't need an expensive, perfect cover. I would rather something basic or a stock photo than an AI cover. (If you don't believe me, check out my favorite books post that will come out soon!)...
I'm seeing more and more book covers with AI art lately, and it saddens me. And I don't know how to fix the problem. I'm mostly seeing it in indie and self-published books, presumably because those have smaller budgets. (If big publishers are doing this, they really have no excuse.) And I know writing books is hard work and can be really expensive, especially for small presses and self-pub...
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I was looking for a book tag to do, and I think I saw one called "April Showers," but it's not April anymore, so I thought, what about "May Flowers"? Which didn't exist, as far as I could tell, so I made my own. Does this even count as a book tag? I don't know. I'm just gonna find five books I've read with floral covers and then talk about them. Because I'm tired, and it seems easy enough, but...
It's that time of year again! The time when I share all my favorite covers from the books I read! Covers aren't everything, obviously, but I do love a good one. So here are some good amazing ones! I'm not going to talk about every single individual cover, but I'll drop some thoughts I have here and...
Ok, fine, to be honest, I mostly just found books with sorta orange color palettes. That counts as fall vibes, right? At least one of these has leaves on it, so that's something 😅 Anyway, most of these probably aren't fall-themed books (I've read most of them, I just don't remember what season they're set in), but they still have pretty...
I have had this post in my drafts for SO LONG because it is very hard to find book covers with pomegranates on them. And of course I wanted them to be sci-fi/fantasy, since that's what my blog is about. And I had to try and make sure it wasn't actually figs I was seeing (easy to tell apart in real life, not always so easy in little illustrations). And I wanted them to actually be pretty. (I...
I think I've had robots on the brain lately because of some games I've been playing, and then I came across a cool book cover with a robot, and I needed to make a blog post for Sunday, so here we are. Robuts! And I made sure to find ones that are mostly humanoid but still robot-y, no androids in human skin here....
I sort of wanted to do something for Valentine's Day (not that I'm celebrating, but I've been blogging for over seven years, I need to get ideas from somewhere), so this is what I decided on! Because book covers are fun. I have to be honest, I was a little bit lazy and mostly looked through covers I already had on my blog from previous posts. But not everyone has seen all those...
When I was in high school, I was once on the phone with a friend, and he was trying to guess the color of my shirt. Purple used to be my least favorite color (I really don't know why, I've now realized the error of my ways and appreciate it for the beautiful color it is), so when he guessed it, I said, "Eww, I hate purple." He kept guessing and guessing, venturing into more specific and unusual...
