AQATSA: In Celebration of Bad Covers

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Don't you love Contemptible Covers? What is up with paranormal romance covers? They're worse than those bodice-ripper romances with the Highlander Spice Guy flexing his abs at Victorian strippers. It's all Photoshopped bubble-butts and fuck-me tattoos. I actually saw this on the shelf at Borders and thought they'd forgotten to put one of their stroke bookserotica in a black plastic wrapper.

Although I have yet to see a book cover that beat this one for the Exalted RPG (warning: probably NSFW) in sheer "WTF? ONTD!" tastelessness.


So by comparison, even my crappy Poser art looks good, right? :D

Here's a second draft of the AQATSA cover -- again, just a crude mock-up for layout purposes, to be given to an actual artist. (Click for larger image.)



Current word count: 170,700. Just finished Chapter 27.

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[(Anonymous)]

I like the concept of this cover and hope an artist can refine it and make it look AWESOME! Ran into a technical glitch on the audio, and have to start over from scratch. but will have something substantial by the end of Summer. Might even have books 2 or 3 done by that time, but I'll keep you posted on the progress. Hope we can enjoy Alex's continuing adventures sometime soon. Anyway, when do u have an idea when you'll be finished?, and maybe you could drop the first chapter off for our Alex fix by summer or whenever?! hey, had to ask.

--wodcdre