The old adage “don’t judge a book by its cover” is good advice that nobody follows.
I mean, even I judge many of the books I read specifically by the cover art! A lot of the time it’s to try and figure out if I want cover art similar to it on my own works… Scalzi’s last sci-fi trilogy all featured starships and lots of green, for example.
Which is a tiny bit unusual, in that for whatever reason red seems to be the colour for most sci-fi books. My own most successful book is “Caitlyn Morcos” and it has both a starship and a red cover.
But the new book, “A Desperate Path Through the Stars” doesn’t have a starship on the cover… it has stars, and it has the protag pretty prominently, and I think it’s a good cover, but it’s not typical for the kind of covers I usually pick.
Oh, I’m so ready to get this novel out of my head and into all of your hands… soon!
Hope everyone is staying safe and healthy!