'Laughably bad' Terry Goodkind

[KoolBak]

I don't get it. So the author has no actual say in his cover art?

I've been reading a ton of self published authors via Amazon Kindle Unlimited ($( a month, unlimited free books via their service). Have actually gotten to know a few of the authors and they pick their artist and the artist does exactly what they want. Different animal without big name publishers in the mix?

[DoomYoshi]

https://electricliterature.com/these-book-covers-are-so-terrible-you-wont-believe-they-re-real-ebc5669d0c84

[Symmetry]

Terry Goodkind is a pretty prolific as a writer in his series. They aren't great books, but if you want a wizard who finds the chosen one in a remote village, and meets a princess figure to fight a weird monstrous sorcerer that the only the kid from the village can beat, he is your guy, among many others.

There's a tv series, which is somehow worse than the books.

There's a wizard in the books, and there's an evil guy. Can you figure out which is which?

"Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander"
"Darkhen Rahl"

Yup, you're right, unless you overthunk it.

[KoolBak]

He should go into acting. Make a totally badass evil guy..lol.

[Symmetry]

He should go into acting. Make a totally badass evil guy..lol.

Nah, he looks more like the guy who gets taken out in one punch guarding the a door in episode 3 of a 10 episode Netflix superhero series.

[riskllama]

he looks like Anton LaVey...

[Symmetry]

he looks like Anton LaVey...

Is that the weird Satanist guy?

[HitRed]

Ming the Mercellous nice outfit

[Symmetry]

Ming the Mercellous nice outfit

He's just a man, with a man's courage, nothing but a man, who can never fail.

Genius

[notyou2]

The artwork looks very similar to the art on the Wheel of Time series.

[Symmetry]

The artwork looks very similar to the art on the Wheel of Time series.

Another series that was pretty bad. Fantasy seems in a pretty bad state nowadays, at least in terms of writing. That said, The Fifth Season series was pretty clever in doing something new of late.

[KoolBak]

I've read a bunch in the last several years that was outstanding. I usually stick to sci-fi, but there's also all these bizarre new micro genres that have developed with the publishing tools available to indie writers like Amazon offers. Not an amazon fan (crap they put me thru to sell my shit on there....grrr), BUT....gotta say amazon Kindle unlimited is the best fucking $10 a month I have ever seen. Read at LEAST $50 a month of books there and it's so easy and I get to explore shit. Genres like harem (lol..some damn good ones), litrpg, funky sci-fi spinoffs, beast morphing....love it.

[Symmetry]

I've read a few fantasy authors polishing off their series (Robin Hobb, Peter Brett...) recently. There are a few others that I will hope for. To be honest, I'm more excited about fantasy novels done well on screen now.