SakeVision
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Late night drunken rumminations:
It's important, as long as it's a cover and not concealment.
In a literal sense, that means that a stone wall can protect you from bullets, a wooden fence can only hide your presence.
But in context of noveling, that means that your cover must be related to the story presented by your book. For example, the cover of the novel I'm publishing now portrays the mc of my story at a certain point in that story. For example, the cover of one of the editions of the Hobbit presents a dragon sitting on the pile of gold, which is also very relevant to its story.
This is a correct use of a cover.
However, oftentimes the covers of authors have nothing or almost nothing to do with stories presented in them, this happens most often when the author is publishing traditionally and has no say as to what the publisher wants to slap on it. Sometimes, the cover even gets things wrong, like giving the supposed main character the wrong hair color, because the artist was commissioned by the company and neither the commissioned nor the commissioner know what the story is about. In such cases, I'd say the cover is merely becoming a concealment, a pretty picture to slap on the front that distracts or misleads from what the actual content is.
In the context of webnovels, it can be concealment, when the author found some image on the net and chose it because of its relatively high quality, rather than relation to the content of whatever he is writing. Or if he didn't plan any plot beforehand, and the story quickly strayed off it's premise designated by the cover and story synopsis.
It's important, as long as it's a cover and not concealment.
In a literal sense, that means that a stone wall can protect you from bullets, a wooden fence can only hide your presence.
But in context of noveling, that means that your cover must be related to the story presented by your book. For example, the cover of the novel I'm publishing now portrays the mc of my story at a certain point in that story. For example, the cover of one of the editions of the Hobbit presents a dragon sitting on the pile of gold, which is also very relevant to its story.
This is a correct use of a cover.
However, oftentimes the covers of authors have nothing or almost nothing to do with stories presented in them, this happens most often when the author is publishing traditionally and has no say as to what the publisher wants to slap on it. Sometimes, the cover even gets things wrong, like giving the supposed main character the wrong hair color, because the artist was commissioned by the company and neither the commissioned nor the commissioner know what the story is about. In such cases, I'd say the cover is merely becoming a concealment, a pretty picture to slap on the front that distracts or misleads from what the actual content is.
In the context of webnovels, it can be concealment, when the author found some image on the net and chose it because of its relatively high quality, rather than relation to the content of whatever he is writing. Or if he didn't plan any plot beforehand, and the story quickly strayed off it's premise designated by the cover and story synopsis.
