 In 2018 Goodkind himself described the cover of his just-published novel "Shroud of Eternity" as "laughably bad", and invited his fans to mock it, offering free copies of the book to ten randomly selected responses on Facebook.Bastien Lecouffe-Deharme identified himself as the uncredited artist, describing Goodkind's behavior as "totally disrespectful", and defending the art as "exactly what I was told to do" by the publisher.Goodkind subsequently apologized, but later characterized the work as "hackneyed", stating that the character's boots were "sexist".