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• ardent commented on "We're going to need book covers. Lots of book covers!"
  The Orbit covers for the Laundry novels make me think of the Gollanz minimalist masterpieces. A second look almost banishes the idea, but the impression still lingers....
• zhochaka commented on "We're going to need book covers. Lots of book covers!"
  I have, in my time, produced a few CGI images which might work as base for a book cover that is to be shrunk by Amazon. I tend to see the picture set-up, arranging the models in a virtual scene, as something like studio photography, and that maybe influences some of my visual choices, such as a plain background and a strong large-scale pattern. There are weaknesses in the infamous "Saturn's Children" cover, but it does have that large-scale pattern. No, I don't think I do a good job. I don't create my own models. But I am not blind....
• RDSouth commented on "We're going to need book covers. Lots of book covers!"
  When books are part of a series I like the cover to reflect which volume I'm holding. For instance, somewhere on The Jennifer Morgue the cover should say, "Book Two of The Laundry Files novels." Admittedly the series isn't really that sequential, and there's a good synopsis worked into each one, so you COULD just pick one up and enjoy it, but it can annoy to get a later book in a series unwittingly, no matter how well handled. If they are going to be color coordinated to obviously go together, my reaction, on seeing them in a bookstore (from...
• scott-sanford commented on "We're going to need book covers. Lots of book covers!"
  Apparently notes such as "Book foo of the Bar series" are now considered unacceptably convenient for readers. The Laundry Files aren't particularly confusing, but imagine someone trying to find a jumping-on point in the Honor Harrington series....
• soon-lee commented on "We're going to need book covers. Lots of book covers!"
  Intriguing article with picture links to the various covers to "Rapture of the Nerds" documenting the creative process to the final version. Some of the discards are very good too....