Aug 30, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads What happens when your book promises adorable monkeys, art theft, and mysterious devices—yet looks like the dust jacket of a noir funeral pamphlet? You get Saving Maria, a cover that’s somehow both hilariously off-base and profoundly...
Aug 29, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Good Reads Cozy Mysteries, Zillow Listings, and Clipart Pets: The Ditie Brown Disaster Every once in a while, a cozy mystery cover shows up that doesn’t whisper “curl up with tea and sleuthing” so much as it screams “free downloadable stock photo...
Aug 20, 2025 | Horrible Covers
There are bad covers. There are weird covers. And then there is this. Opening this visual potion feels like falling face-first into an overgrown terrarium after downing three shots of rose quartz–infused moon water. Our central figure, a pastel elf straight out of an...
Aug 19, 2025 | Horrible Covers
The Sage Forgot Graphic Design Somewhere in a dimly lit office, Robert B. Haynes sat before a computer, gazed at the horizon of possibility, and said: “What if I just… slap white Times New Roman on a sunset?” And thus, the cover of Sound Thinking: Thoughts...
Aug 19, 2025 | Horrible Covers
See this cover on Smash Words Proof that mountains can be majestic… and still photobombed by bad typography. Ladies and gentlemen, gather ‘round for today’s installment of “Why Did This Happen to Design?” — a little number I like to call Above It All. Here’s the...
