As part of Dorchester's Leisure Horror Book Club I got Nate Kenyon's Bloodstone. I know that someone has posted the cover art for this book here at
Shocklines in the past and when they posted it, it just didn't do anything for me. Now that I see it in person, I can see that is is probably the best
cover Leisure has done in two years. (And I buy everything Leisure prints.)
When you consider how bad some of their other cover art has been, Brian Smith's poor Queen of Blood comes to mind -- great writer/horrible cover -- and even how generic the cover for the other book club book is, Graham Masterton's The 5th Witch, it was great to see a book with a cover that I might actually pick up and look at in a book store instead of something generic that your eyes will just pass right over.
Lets hope this means Leisure is going to turn a corner with their covers and start getting a little more inventive.
When you consider how bad some of their other cover art has been, Brian Smith's poor Queen of Blood comes to mind -- great writer/horrible cover -- and even how generic the cover for the other book club book is, Graham Masterton's The 5th Witch, it was great to see a book with a cover that I might actually pick up and look at in a book store instead of something generic that your eyes will just pass right over.
Lets hope this means Leisure is going to turn a corner with their covers and start getting a little more inventive.
