Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 11:39:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com> Subject: [WSFA] Re: re: The eyes, they bleed! The brain, it hurts! To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> Michael Walsh <mjw at press.jhu.edu> <snip> >Face it ... it's just bad art. >That said, Baen books sell ... they know their market. & this will >probably sell fairly well. Or, if people pick it up and look inside, it may sell in spite of the cover. There's a reason the dollar stores sell those flimsy cloth covers for paperback books. I bought certain authors for decades in spite of horrible covers, and at least once I stuck thick sticky-paper labels over a disgusting cover so I could stand to have the book in the house. =Tamar