{"id":19097,"date":"2013-06-10T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T04:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=19097"},"modified":"2013-06-08T06:53:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T10:53:21","slug":"time-to-totally-judge-some-books-by-their-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/06\/10\/time-to-totally-judge-some-books-by-their-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Time To Totally Judge Some Books By Their Covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book covers, man.<\/p>\n<p>Tricky business.<\/p>\n<p>Subjective, for one. In theory, book covers are art (or are supposed to be) &#8212; and everybody responds to art in different ways. We like certain colors, dislike other colors. We\u00a0<em>respond<\/em> to images a certain way &#8212; with love, with attraction, with revulsion, with curiosity.<\/p>\n<p>Then you add in the complexity that different genres have different &#8220;cover tropes&#8221; present. Sometimes paranormal romance or urban fantasy has the leather-clad heroine or hero (sometimes turning so as to demonstrate a leather-clad asscheek because, I dunno why &#8212; do they fight vampires and werewolves with their asses?). Space-driven science-fiction often has to have a spaceship on the cover or, I dunno, people freak out and burn down the bookstore.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, covers are changing function. Digital books still have covers but Amazon&#8217;s demonstration of them is often as a thumbnail (though that appears to be changing, as my Amazon for print books now shows a cover on display that&#8217;s much bigger). Further, it&#8217;s interesting that digital books still have to have cover-shaped covers given the fact they never actually have to be\u00a0<em>printed out<\/em>, but I guess if they don&#8217;t fit the Kindle screen, the world will explode.<\/p>\n<p>(Then you add in\u00a0<em>super-extra-crazy-complexity<\/em> once you add in gendered cover concerns like what Maureen Johnson was highlighting with <a title=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/05\/07\/coverflip-maureen-johnson_n_3231935.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/05\/07\/coverflip-maureen-johnson_n_3231935.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Coverflip<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>So, I come to you readers and writers and ask:<\/p>\n<p>What works for you on a book cover?<\/p>\n<p>Have you bought a book based on the cover alone?<\/p>\n<p>What covers have worked?<\/p>\n<p>Flipside:<\/p>\n<p>What\u00a0<em>doesn&#8217;t<\/em> work? What weirds you out on covers? Have you ever been put off by a cover?<\/p>\n<p>LET&#8217;S TALK THIS THROUGH, PEOPLE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book covers, man. Tricky business. Subjective, for one. In theory, book covers are art (or are supposed to be) &#8212; and everybody responds to art in different ways. We like certain colors, dislike other colors. We\u00a0respond to images a certain way &#8212; with love, with attraction, with revulsion, with curiosity. Then you add in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-4Y1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19099,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19097\/revisions\/19099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}