Cover Art
Is this cover art sufficiently creepy for my upcoming thriller? This was partly done last year by Mrs. JP with CorelDraw. Obviously, it doesn't matter what cover art I choose since the author never has any input over stuff like that. But it would give a publisher a direction of where I'd like to go and what may work.
posted by jurassicpork @ Monday, June 04, 2012
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Yes. Although I can't quite put my finger on it...perhaps it's that the proportions are individually OK but collectively Wrong.
It's a Renaissance painting by Giovanni Francesco Caroto. Dr. Harry Angelman saw it in Florence in 1965 and recognized in it the symptoms of Puppet Boy (or Angelman's) Syndrome. For months I fruitlessly searched for the proper cover art for this book then finally one day it hit me. Why not use it? The has that perfect combination and balance of innocence and creepiness that pervades my novel.
There's something profoundly disturbing about it, not quite sure why.
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