I’ve been thinking about book cover art for fantasy novels a good deal lately. So I found this analysis of fantasy cover art trends written by Nicola Alter of particular interest.
Read the post: Judging a Book by Its Cover – 17 Typical Features of Fantasy Covers.
Or read about my muck-up:
I tried to reblog the post of the above name written by Nicola Alter on her Thoughts on Fantasy site. I don’t know why it didn’t work. I haven’t reblogged any other posts before, so didn’t know exactly how it worked. I suspect I had a problem because I hadn’t logged into my site before I tried to do the reblog from her site. Seems like WordPress would have asked me to login if necessary when I clicked the Reblog button, but it didn’t. And clicking the Reblog button again had no effect. So I messed up. Next time I try to reblog something, I hope I remember this experience and will login to my site first. Maybe it will work then.
If you’ve read my little blurb here, I appreciate it, but now, if you’re interested in the topic listed in the title of this post, please jump over to Nicola’s site. You can tell her I sent you.
UPDATE: I managed to get the link on Nicola’s site to my so-called reblog of her post to point to this page, by making the title match and backdating this post to the day I tried to reblog. Go, me! 🙂
Any difficulties in reblogging, I would blame on WordPress. It always fights me, and I would comment here more often if it would behave.
Hey, Grandpa. Always nice seeing your comments here. Whenever I comment on any WordPress site, I generally look to see if my avatar is showing on the page. If it is, I know I’m logged in already. I should have done the same when I went to reblog, but I failed in that respect. LIve and learn. Hope you’re enjoying the holiday season.
Surviving, and living by tablet – computer and hard rives are in pieces in boxes, and it should take me 11.7 business days to ressurect it. Ergo, thumb typing errors and vicious nastybads from WordPress. It likes to pretend that each blog has a different password, except on Tuesdays, when it challenges me to a nice game of Fizben.
Thanks for sharing, my friend. I love stuff like this. I always nerd out on it 😀
Katie!! So good of you to drop by and comment. Hope your holidays have been bright. I owe you an email. I know it’s way overdue, but look for it sometime after the new year.