Covenant isn’t exactly renowned for their design.

I guess they don’t have to be, do they? ::sigh::

That’s crappy design. But, frankly, Covenant isn’t exactly renowned for their design.

When we went to Nauvoo for my cousin’s wedding (August), I went to the bookstore there and got a book by Anita Stansfield. It was not marked in any way as being a sequel to something else. Not on the cover, not on the title page, nowhere.

I got into the first page and realized it was a sequel, so I looked at the “other books by” page and saw there was one ahead of it. I went to Deseret Book’s website and ordered that book. Guess what? THAT book’s a sequel, too.

I cannot tell you how mad I am and I LIKE series. No, I LOVE AND ADORE them. When did publishers STOP putting this information on the cover? A simple “1” on the spine and/or the front cover would suffice.

And let me tell you something: Those two Anita Stansfield books were a helluva lot more expensive than one little ebook, so I’m exponentially more peeved about that.

This is part of why I’m endlessly leery of series or even appearing-vaguely-series-like books, which can often include entire genres. And I’m pro-genre fiction — but sometimes I don’t think genre fiction is pro-me.