I don't look at book jackets all that carefully. But there is one series I like. I think it is a great idea to link books in a series as much as possible and yet still keep each one distinct. Here is my favorite: Rennie Airth's. Same set-up but different color fonts and different pictures. Jeff discusses this more fully on Killer Covers.
What is your favorite book jacket and what series has done such a good job in linking its jackets?
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I'm in the same boat--picking covers--as you are. And I love the covers you featured. My plan for my few series is to do exactly that: common look/feel per series and alter various elements.
Frankly, a favorite series of covers for me is the Richard Castle series. Same concept: common name and title with color hue changes and background images.
Right now, I have three series I'm working on getting out. One is a World War II thing, and the other two are present day. I'm working on making the WWII-era stuff kinda like this Airth's series: graphic images w/o photos. The modern ones, well, I have ideas on those, too.
You are ambitious, Scott. I can hardly keep one book in my head at a time.
Gorgeous, Margot.
Margot is right about Tom Adams. That's a great series of covers. I'm a big fan of Robert McGinnis' covers. The covers he painted for the Mike Shayne series and Carter Brown series are classics.
I love painted covers and McGinnis was one of the greats. In the future, as my books turn a few years old, I want to convert the covers to painted covers. I'm just not there yet. Heck, I haven't even published a one yet, but that'll change in the next few months.
I just got the last Airth and, yes, I like to art too!
Hard Case Crime has done great work for their authors, Penguin with the James Bond novels, and Vintage with Eric Ambler and Ross MacDonald.
Patti, I liked all the illustrated covers of the pocket-sized Erle Stanley Gardner novels.
There are a series of Christie covers that I like much better, but I can't find out who the artist is/was. To me, they're reminiscent of 1920s era art. Here is a link to some of them.
http://www.abebooks.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/agatha-christie-books.jpg
and another
https://ia801500.us.archive.org/zipview.php?zip=/1/items/olcovers0/olcovers0-L.zip&file=1565-L.jpg
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