Disclaimers: I buy very, very little "genre fiction", whether it's PR, horror, or SF/F. And as a sort of 'failed FTM' I don't know whether you'd see my opinion as being more of a man's or more of a woman's. But: I really, really was put off the cover. It filled me with a sense of dread (not the good kind) that stayed with me until I was probably sixty or eighty pages into reading the book.
Honestly, if you hadn't come highly recommended as an author, and if I hadn't read your LiveJournal pages for a while, I would have passed over "The Red Tree" on the shelf based on the cover, assuming it to be generic pulp. There's just *so* *much* published every year on the shelves of the bookstores you have to develop some kind of high-throughput filtration system. Mine is, well, pretty superficial ;(
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Date: 2009-08-17 04:07 pm (UTC)Honestly, if you hadn't come highly recommended as an author, and if I hadn't read your LiveJournal pages for a while, I would have passed over "The Red Tree" on the shelf based on the cover, assuming it to be generic pulp. There's just *so* *much* published every year on the shelves of the bookstores you have to develop some kind of high-throughput filtration system. Mine is, well, pretty superficial ;(