Author 'pokes fun' at his book's cover art, which didn't sit well with the illustrator

Authors, maybe don't be mean to your cover artist.

Fantasy author Terry Goodkind has just released his novel Shroud of Eternity, but seemingly wasn't too satisfied about the cover. So he ran a competition, giving away signed copies of the books in exchange for people's thoughts on it.

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"Shroud of Eternity is a great book with a very bad cover. Laughably bad. So let's have some fun with it," he wrote on Facebook last Friday.

Not so impressed was the illustrator of the book's cover, Bastien Lecouffe-Deharme, who responded to Goodkind's Facebook post. Read more...

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