Sentences with phrase «awful book cover»

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Other than the boozing scene, Miyasaki clearly realizes the importance of teaching lessons to his young audience, as the old «Don't judge a book by its cover» adage is a central theme, as well as several scenes that depict the awful devastation that mankind is leaving on our oceans.

St Aubyn's books about that time are infused with his biting humor, and the creators allow Cumberbatch free rein to explore that range of emotions, and he's absolutely essential casting to not only pull off the role but to let viewers know it's OK to enjoy the often hilarious, drugged - out debauchery, so long as they can stomach the telling of the whole story (told in flashbacks, with Sebastian Maltz as a young Patrick, plus voice overs from grown - up Patrick and a separate, archly British narrator) and to understand his bad behavior is a bandage covering an awful wound.

The book was a flaming mess; the cover was awful and nearly every chapter was rife with mistakes.

Those covers sold an awful lot of books though.

Self - publishing has opened the gates and it's true that a lot of low quality books have hit the market — poorly written manuscripts packed with typos and just plain bad storytelling (and awful covers).

To do that, I strongly recommend having it professionally edited (an editor will pick up glitches even the most talented writer will miss) and the cover professionally designed (self - published books with Photoshop covers generally look awful).

I found a book that I loved, but it had an awful cover.

The Witcher book series is particularly awful in this regard, they just took some random piece of unrelated promotional artwork from the game and slapped it on the cover.

Books that are poorly edited, have awful covers, and that suffer from mediocre content may still abound, but they are not difficult to spot.

Basically, Terra knew exactly what she wanted from a book cover, and told her cover designer what to do... the end result was awful; so she found another book cover designer and tried to start over with the same idea — but the new designer said «no.»

I've been agonizing over the awful cover on my second book and the overall look of the series but not actually doing anything about it.

For instance, if you check book cover designs from a century ago, you'll see they were quite awful in comparison with today's standards.

Warning: when you first upload your beautiful book cover onto Amazon and view it as a thumbnail — it may look like awful; bent and crooked.

Otherwise, you can lose out to a truly awful book that happens to have a catchy cover.

But an awful cover won't help sell a great book.

Dan Wagstaff on Casual Optimist Notable Book Covers of 2016 «It is that wonderful / awful time of year.

And heed the words of a prominent publishing lawyer who told me: «They got ways to screw you you haven't even thought of yet --» Let me (start) to count the ways: lousy cover, awful blurb, pathetic print order, no coop, forget a tour & if you do get one be prepared to be exhausted & sick — and worst of all not to sell enough books to warrant the misery of being on the road.

Oh, as a side note, my mother buys a huge # of new books, & I have noticed the quality of the printing, design, cover art, and binding has been awful in the last 10 years.

While it's certainly true that indie authors yearn for respect, the plethora of unedited, badly written books with god - awful covers still taint the category.

I say that not just because that's what I do for a living, but because I've seen some really awful covers on indie published books.

Read the book «Merchants of Doubt», its says an awful lot regarding the political system, the media system (equal airtime to both sides of the argument) and covers all that has hapenned when scientific findings upset the capatalist system which would mean one of several things inlcuding job losses, loss of revenue, loss of influence and hence foundations are founded and odd but politically charged arguments are put forward that have worked for many a year.