cover art -- ugh

[mmegaera]

And here we go again.

You know, I can make a perfectly good cover once I've got the art. I've got most of the other design elements and technical stuff down pretty well. What I can't do worth a darn is find and choose genre-appropriate cover art.

I wish I knew how to find someone to teach me how to find good genre-appropriate cover art, or who could find good cover art for me. I also want specifics on how to sort the art down to what's appropriate for what genre, so I don't waste hours looking at stuff I shouldn't even be considering.

I don't want a cover designer (someone to create the cover from the art). Most of them prefer that you provide the art to begin with. I want an art finder, dammit. And I would pay good money for one I could depend on to do a good job.

Or, even better, someone out there could make a literal fortune creating a stock photo/illustration site with a category of search parameters going something like this:

Genre

Adventure
Romance
Thriller
Historical
Time Travel/AU
Science Fiction
Epic Fantasy
Urban Fantasy

Etc.

Seriously. A fortune. Judging from covers I've seen, I can't imagine that there wouldn't be a ginormous market for something like this. And with enough people contributing to it (the way they do to the other stock photo sites), and appropriate amounts of design creativity, nobody would have to worry about running into two books with the same cover any more than they do now.

Please? Who do I submit my request to?