[Patty Jansen]

Gaaaahhh!

Because I found the lousy book cover thread so negative I made a pinterest thread with the title Awesome self-published book covers and now I can't remember which book covers I found so awesome. Except one.

So post your nominations (with image and link) here and I'll pin the awesome ones.

Don't nominate your own books.

http://pinterest.com/mikandra/awesome-self-published-book-covers/

 

[dalya]

Do you mean covers of awesome self-published books or awesome covers of self-published books?

 

[Al Dente]

Or do you mean "covers" of awesome self-published books? *motions to guitar sitting beside me* Don't tempt me. I'll do it! 

 

[Klip]

That's a GREAT idea. 
But now, of course, I can no longer remember the ones I liked!  I'll have to go look for them.

 

[Patty Jansen]

It was meant to be an antithesis to the tumbl blog where the book designer pisses on covers he hates.

 

[Klip]

It was meant to be an antithesis to the tumbl blog where the book designer pisses on covers he hates.

Yes, I saw that. Did leave a bad taste in my mouth too.

 

[dalya]

It was meant to be an antithesis to the tumbl blog where the book designer pisses on covers he hates.

Yes, I've been on KB all day, so I got that. ;-) Was just giving you a hard time!

 

[Selina Fenech]

Hrm, they're not all self published, but I've got a Cover Love board going on pinterest as well that does have a number of self published covers on it. You'll probably recognise them from here when you see them- http://pinterest.com/selinafenech/cover-love/

 

[Sam Kates]

Love that cover for Touched

 

[Patty Jansen]

Link?

 

[Sam Kates]

Sorry, Patty - should have made clear I was replying to Selina. It's one of the covers on her link.

 

[Patty Jansen]

Unfortunately, I prefer to keep this G-rated.

 

[Patty Jansen]

So, I wanted to pin one of your covers, but there are no links attached.

 

[purplesmurf]

 

[theaatkinson]

what a nice lil spark of positivity. I have one problem: I love them all and now have to go click 'like' or comment on em. wow. great work putting these all together. would love to know the designers for these.

 

[Patty Jansen]

Beware because I scavenge your signature!

MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

(Whut? No devil smiley on this board?)

 

[David Adams]

David's awesome Rakshasa serial covers. Most definitely.

Awwwww. Thank you.

I'll admit that I bought Raquel Lyon's Foxblood books just for the cover. Wow. So I'll nominate that one!

Edit: And it's right here: http://www.amazon.com/Foxblood-Brush-Moon-ebook/dp/B004E3XI08/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1358081000&sr=1-1&keywords=foxblood

 

[Jan Hurst-Nicholson]

I think you tend to like the covers of the genres you read, so I'm not sure I could judge whether covers of the other genres are good, or not. But I suppose you can like them even if they are not considered to be 'good' covers by those in the graphic design and cover industry  .

 

[Patty Jansen]

Not really. A lot of these are urban fantasy/paranormal, which I don't read.

Actually the genre I read most is not even represented here. I'm going purely by pretty pictures and yet of course this will be biased.

I'll list non-fiction covers, too.

(I read mostly hard SF)

 

[Cherise]

Kay Bratt's cover for Chasing China grabs my eyes whenever it is on the page. I love it.