{"id":1243,"date":"2009-07-08T19:59:47","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T03:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2009-07-08T19:59:47","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T03:59:47","slug":"cover-art-the-grave-thief-by-tom-lloyd-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/news\/cover-art-the-grave-thief-by-tom-lloyd-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Art | The Grave Thief by Tom Lloyd (again&#8230;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in April, <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=856\">I posted the US cover art<\/a> to Tom Lloyd&#8217;s <strong>The Grave Thief<\/strong>, and the reaction wasn&#8217;t terribly in its favour. Well, it looks like <strong>Pyr Books<\/strong>, the publisher, <a href=\"http:\/\/pyrsf.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/for-your-viewing-pleasure-revised.html\">caught wind of the reaction<\/a> here (and elsewhere on the web) and did a bit of touch-up work on it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Old Cover<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/the-grave-thief.jpg\" alt=\"The US Cover for The Grave Thief by Tom Lloyd\" title=\"The US Cover for The Grave Thief by Tom Lloyd\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The New Cover<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/TheGraveThief.jpg\" alt=\"The Grave Thief by Tom Lloyd\" title=\"The Grave Thief by Tom Lloyd\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>I definitely appreciate the change in typeface &#8211; more aggresive, more eye catching, more interesting. Though it&#8217;s still not an incredible cover, it&#8217;s nice to see <strong>Pyr<\/strong> taking a step back and admitting when they have a dud of a cover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in April, I posted the US cover art to Tom Lloyd&#8217;s The Grave Thief, and the reaction wasn&#8217;t terribly in its favour. Well, it looks like Pyr Books, the publisher, caught wind of the reaction here (and elsewhere on the web) and did a bit of touch-up work on it. 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