Roger Pearse

People may remember that I commissioned a translation of Eusebius of Caesarea's Gospel problems and solutions awhile back, which I intend to publish and sell to libraries and interested persons (in order to get back what the translator cost) and eventually place online.

The book has now been typeset, and I'm thinking about the cover. But what to put on the cover?

Does anyone have any ideas what the cover ought to look like? Or suggestions as to people who do professional book cover design?

It mustn't look like a novel, because it is pretty dry; but it must be something that will cause people seeing it on Amazon to be interested.

Any thoughts gratefully received!

stephan huller

Well it is called 'Gospel Questions'



Most of my ideas are corny so I apologize in advance ...

stephan huller

Or maybe this:

stephan huller

A similarly titled book has been published by the Mormons:



I bring this up if you want to avoid using images

JoeWallack

JW:
How about making Eusebius be made to look as much as possible like Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon holding a Rubik's Cube and trying to line up the Father, Son and Holy Ghost squares on one side and simultaneously align the four Gospel squares into three spots and in a further tribute to anachronism wearing a Padres baseball cap.



Joseph

ErrancyWiki

Toto

There are some images of Eusebius on the web. There is one here that is appealing without being overly dramatic:


(This is the source of the jpg on wikimedia.)

It's public domain, so you might get an artist to update it, with Eusebius working on a laptop.

Elijah

I would go with a more text focused cover over an image one. Something with the original text on a worn parchment background and the modern translation of "the gospel problems and their solutions" raised above the old text, with an emphasize on the solution part.

That or maybe the old hand on the page thing where you see someone is writing out “gospel solutions” on a piece of fresh paper with an old manuscript in front of them.

If you are going to do an image I would try for something that’s going to stand out more like a logo than a portrait.

spin

stephan huller

Someone has time on their hands ...

mountainman