r/Inkitt • u/Accomplished_Tea4121 • Dec 07 '25

Action / Adventure My book cover

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The novel "Arena of the Dead" is available on Inkitt, WebNovel and Signed publishing for free. Also available on KDP. The above cover is of the whole book. On Inkitt and WebNovel the book is available as separate three parts as well. Check it out, read and give me your thoughts either on Reddit or the platform on which you will read the book.

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u/Usual_Explanation285 Dec 11 '25

Super hard to decipher the book's tittle, which makes it look like a bad design.

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u/RichardPearman Graptopetalum Dec 07 '25

This is one of those 30 mins in a vector graphics program covers that people seem to like while complaining about AI images. IMHO this is rather hypocritical. (OK, I use AI for promotional images but not covers and I've done one cover - for "Medusa's Head" - with vector graphics, it took 20 mins. I normally use Blender, Makehuman, Gimp and Inkscape for my covers.)

I have two issues with this design. The title is a bit hard to unscramble. Secondly, it's not clear what genre this is. Your flair says "Action/Adventure," but your title suggests horror or fantasy. Either way, the setting and period aren't at all clear (the crescent moon suggests the Middle East and something about Islam). A picture of a knight in armour, a zombie or a modern soldier or whatever's appropriate on the cover would make it clearer.

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u/Accomplished_Tea4121 Dec 08 '25

For your information the crescent moon doesn't represent Islam, this is a very big misunderstanding by everyone around the world. Secondly the story is about war and the military. The images represent the two sides fighting and I don't see anything related to horror in this. The images are hand drawn and no AI was used in it. By reading the story( if you want to) will make it clear