S.T. Joshi blogged that he liked the “1940s private detective” look of this recent night-picture of him, snapped in Providence. He regretted it could not be used a book cover for one of his mystery novels. There’s admittedly not a great deal that can be done with such a poor tiny 450-pixel night picture with the face in shadow, but I’ve had a quick go…

Original:

Makeover for a book cover, sized up for a Lulu print-on-demand paperback:

How well it would reproduce on paper I don’t know, though Lulu covers are usually quite good. But it should do for an ebook, with some nice typography added.

Another version, de-blued and with the distracting ‘helicopter wing mirror’ panel-thing gone, and the cloud shmushed to give the slightest subliminal hint of a tentacle…