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The audiobook 'cover' for A Civil Campaign does seem to be an exception. Although - if the figures are who they seem to be - it's not plot-correct!

It's a pity that so many book covers don't match the contents, to the level of having a saying about it, considering the cover is one of the primary ways of making a decision about whether to read it or not. Some sci-fi covers are particularly awful (nasty, garish colours that don't do the complexity of the story justice spring to mind).

One particular case of cover art I think is worth mentioning is that, for some time, the covers for the Japanese editions of Star Wars tie-in novels were handled by artist Tsuyoshi Nagano, and they're almost universally regarded as being vastly superior to the originals in all respects (not only were they aesthetically appealing, but also impressively relevant to the contents of each book).

I just finished reading A Reluctant Dragon to my daughter. The green-scaled dragon in the illustrations made me twitch. The text is clear that the dragon has blue scales.

It seems like the best way to get good cover art/illustrations is to be an author-artist. So... Time to take some art classes? ;-)

Is it something you could fix when new editions are being published? It would be great to pick up copies of your books knowing you were happy with the way the cover represented your writing. You deserve that from your publishers by now surely?

I have always liked style of czech covers of Vorkosigan saga. I also don´t think that they rely on this observation XD.
You can look at covers here: http://www.talpress.cz/shop/katalog/3...