Covers Always Lie/Quotes

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.
Featuring: No Scene Even Remotely Like This Inside!
normalman

The Monster in the Darkness: Wait-- The scene on the cover didn't happen that way.

Demon-roach: Welcome to show business, kid.
"Maybe it isn't entirely forthright, putting a crusader badass the cover of your medieval allegory -- but I don't care. In fact, I support this kind of thing wholeheartedly: fact is, sometimes you got to lie to a motherfucker. If showing a dude holding a giant spine with an aftermarket scythe affixed is what it takes to get young men to read a single page of the classics, than so be it. I hope these shenanigans work like gangbusters. We've got your backs on this thing."
Tycho, Penny Arcade