The Moon Etherium Cover Art & Poll

[rowyn]

I set a release date for The Moon Etherium, my magic-rich fantasy romance: September 26!

That means it's time to freak out about the cover some more!

So I spent like 20 hours working on a painting for the cover several weeks ago. I have become increasingly less happy with it.  I tweaked a few things about it  that particularly bothered me, and I'm okay with it now. But I'm not sure it's the best possible choice.

I fiddled with some alternates a couple of weeks ago, and while my quick Twitter poll favored one of them, I kind of hated it. I decided to do some more variants on the same general theme. I actually did five total, but I'm only showing the one I like best here. And a poll, of course.  Because poll.

The lettering is a placeholder, so don't worry about that part. alinsa will be doing the actual text layout. I just threw some words on so it would look cover-ish.


[Poll #2054073]

Comments

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

*thinks her opinion counts more because she's done research on cover art* >.>

[whitefangedwolf.livejournal.com]

Hmm... The challenge is that The Moon Etherium is a fantasy novel with a strong romance plot line. If I looked at the painted cover with the tagline and didn't know anything about the book, I would have guessed it was a romance about two lovers throwing everything to the wind for feelings, which it's totally not, and skipped a novel I would have thoroughly enjoyed.
On the other hand, the poses on the the silhouette cover make it read weakly as a romance cover and not as a fantasy cover at all. I think Miro's pose could be adjusted to make the silhouette cover read as a fantasy cover, but it depends on how you're planning on marketing the book.
If you're planning on targeting romance readers, I'd scrap the tagline for one that better fits the romantic plot line. If you're hoping to pull in fantasy readers who like romance in their fantasy novels, I think that neither of the covers are currently suitable.

[elbren]

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the split contrast on the title of 1 is not good