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Welcome to Start & Grow Your Independent Hotel, a business manual so visually confused, it looks like the lost slide from a real estate PowerPoint deck that never got to present. There’s a saying in hospitality: presentation is everything. This cover missed that...
There’s a special place in the bad book cover multiverse reserved for Digital Wellness for Couples, and it’s somewhere between a wellness seminar pamphlet and a dating app cautionary tale. If love is a battlefield, this cover is the badly drawn map that gets you lost...
They say you never get a second chance to make a first impression — unless you're this cover, which seems determined to make zero good ones on purpose. Start & Grow Your Independent Hotel promises a “Complete Owner’s Blueprint,” but visually? It’s more like a...
There’s something deeply poetic about The Skin Collector — a psychological thriller whose cover accidentally performs its own psychological sabotage. You know you're in trouble when the biggest mystery on the cover isn’t who the killer is, but who approved the font....
Welcome to the visual black hole of Lost in Space: Xeno Relations, where genre meets glam in a full-frontal collision with poor design decisions and a stray cat. This cover is not so much lost in space as it is trapped in a design wormhole, where gravity, logic, and...
If you've ever wondered what would happen if a diploma, a motivational poster, and an AI hallucination walked into a branding seminar, The New Illiteracy Crisis is your answer. This cover doesn’t whisper urgency—it yells it with flaming cities, glowing dirt paths, and...
Ah yes, Echo of the Silent World—where the world has ended, humanity has vanished, and apparently so has any understanding of depth, perspective, or terrain consistency. This cover wants to be a haunting post-apocalyptic epic, but instead it serves up the visual...
Romantic historical fiction has one job: sweep us off our feet with drama, longing, and a little poetic flair. But The Black Thorn & The Bonny Rose instead offers an accidental Photoshop duel between a Regency couple, a killer houseplant, and a full moon that...
This cover looks like creativity lost a bar fight with perspective and woke up taped to a wall covered in unrelated objects. Poet’s Life isn’t a visual poem—it’s a conglomeration of crap, aggressively assembled and stretched until meaning taps out. At first glance, it...
In the garden of book design, some covers bloom... and others get tangled in their own metaphorical brambles. The Thornbound Promise promises a magical romantic epic, but what it actually delivers is a thorny tangle of bad layout decisions, lightning fingers, and a...
Somewhere between an AI art experiment and a motivational poster hanging in a dystopian wellness retreat, Rewriting Humanity lumbers into the Horrible Covers arena looking like it brought the world’s most underwhelming apocalypse with it. If this is a “manifesto for a...
This isn’t “forbidden love”—this is graphic design felony with historical amnesia and a soft-focus Instagram filter. If the goal was to create the most tone-deaf romance cover in the history of the genre, then congratulations: it’s a five-alarm aesthetic dumpster fire...
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The purpose of Horrible Covers is not only to critique but also to highlight how much cover design matters to a book’s success. Many authors set out with the best intentions but end up with covers that don’t reflect the quality of their writing — sometimes because they tried to do it themselves, sometimes because they relied on someone who wasn’t a professional cover designer.
We understand how frustrating that can be.
Our aim is simple: to help writers put their best work forward with cover art that does justice to the story inside. If you’ve been featured here and are ready to level up your presentation, reach out through our contact form and mention “Horrible Covers Author.”