The Year's Best Horror 2006, ed. John Gregory Betancourt

[oldcharliebrown]

I caught some flak on this mockup, by the shocklines community, as they demanded something a bit more appropriate to their narrow small press market, but since this is meant to sell thousands of copies, not a few hundred . . . I say screw 'em. This is just a preliminary draft (I'll let my designers take a whack at it later this year):

Comments

Beautiful.

[frosthaven.livejournal.com]

I don't see the problem. It is simply a beautifully macabre picture.

Frosty.

Beauty.

[frosthaven.livejournal.com]

I'm going to post this again since the last one was eaten by the invisible creature that loves to gobble up innocent posts. The picture is beautiful and I see nothing wrong with it. I am going to save it to my picture folder. Nice, very nice indeed.

Frosty.

[lokust.livejournal.com]

i commented over on teh shocklines board about it, but it seems to have been eaten.
i think it's a pretty good design for a mass market book, geared to sell TO the masses.
i felt that a lot of the comments there were strangely elitist...
llike you should bend over backwards for the same one hundred people or so for every book you do, and OF COURSE it should look EXACTLY the same as every overpriced fifty copy ultra limited first novel they're buying this week.