{"id":1351,"date":"2009-10-09T17:50:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T21:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2009-10-09T13:54:37","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T17:54:37","slug":"awful-book-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/10\/09\/awful-book-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Awful book covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2009\/10\/02\/even-the-animals-look-abashed\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Scalzi<\/a> has a nominee for the &#8220;Worst Book Cover by a Major Publisher&#8221; award:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Worst_book_cover_nominee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Worst_book_cover_nominee.jpg\" alt=\"Worst_book_cover_nominee\" title=\"Worst_book_cover_nominee\" width=\"372\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Worst_book_cover_nominee.jpg 372w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Worst_book_cover_nominee-93x150.jpg 93w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seriously, now, DAW, wtf? I know there\u2019s a recession on, but there must be a <em>better<\/em> class of 12-year-old you can hire to push about the \u201cliquefy\u201d tool in Photoshop. I get that you were aiming for \u201cchintzy, kooky fun\u201d but you landed on \u201cFourth grade class project on Lulu.com,\u201d and that just isn\u2019t cool, and more to the point, you should know the difference. Were I an author in this particular anthology I would be sad I couldn\u2019t show my friends the book I was in without them asking how much it cost me to publish it. I\u2019m frightened to show it to graphic designers I know because I don\u2019t want to be sued for damages when it causes blood to <em>shoot from their ears<\/em>. And as a reader, I can say the cover makes a really excellent argument for owning a Kindle.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Scalzi has a nominee for the &#8220;Worst Book Cover by a Major Publisher&#8221; award: Seriously, now, DAW, wtf? I know there\u2019s a recession on, but there must be a better class of 12-year-old you can hire to push about the \u201cliquefy\u201d tool in Photoshop. I get that you were aiming for \u201cchintzy, kooky fun\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,28],"tags":[102,156,85],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media","tag-art","tag-fail","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-lN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}