Wallace B. McClure

First book cover, wally's pic is better

So, where are the hot programmer chicks?  In the absence of grrrrls, I suppose my favorite is the one with ou3b*HU#BOWS_X_c90hxb&#&^*GYDV -- [connection terminated unexpectedly]

Surely there are alternatives, like Wally being larger than the others (is that hard to imagine?).

Maybe a Brady Bunch style thing, with the others in little squares down the side? You could have an animated gif in the online version, with Wally looking over at each one, lovingly....

Obviously there should be a third option... the fourth guy in on the first cover is quite a dashing fellow...

Craig, that's a disturbing comment to make. You should've at least got your better half to write it.

Definately the second one.

IMO the first one is better according to what Wrox has written in its documents for author photographs.

They put the photo of authors on cover to let readers start a friendly bridge between themselves and authors.  And this is the reason to ask authors to take some friendly photos.

On the other hand having the photos of other authors can help to sell more copies and they can bring more readers to the book.

Anyhow, I think your photo on second cover is better than the first one ;-)

I like the listbox approach...

Wally, maybe this will help you choose? [http://www.thedatafarm.com/blog/2007/04/27/WROXAJAXBookCover.aspx]

Why not pictures of kittens and puppies?

Glav's having fun with PhotoShop too...

http://weblogs.asp.net/pglavich/archive/2007/04/28/beginning-asp-net-ajax-book-cover.aspx