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

[rowyn]

I could put a blazing angry fire-bird above them! It would have nothing to do with actual events of the book but it would kinda-sorta be evocative of them?

... I am so torn between "I should make sure this is as good an advertisement as I can manage" and "I am so sick of this I just want to work on the next book already."

[archangelbeth]

Self-Publishing means you can always go back later and fix the cover.

[whitefangedwolf.livejournal.com]

If you want to be plot-relevant and don't want to put the phoenix rose on the cover, nothing says fantasy like chained-up young maiden in bondage wear!

(I'm joking, please don't do that.)

Seriously, I think terrycloth's suggestion is a good one and can't think of anything insightful to add to it at the moment.

[rowyn]

:P

I did try the bird thing, though.

[archangelbeth]

Hm. Actually... Stick a moderately faint logo/rose thing in the moon behind them? The "Mysterious Symbol" might indicate that there's a plot line that's at least as important as the relationship plot. Stick with the purples, make the rose/design a different color to stand out (despite being faint/having a high transparency), make the viewer wonder what the heck the design is all about -- and then draw them into the nuances with the blurb.

Or so I'd give a shot, anyway.

[rowyn]

Oh, that's a cool idea. I already tried the bird thing and am back to "more sick of dealing with this than I am unhappy with the possible covers". I will see if I have regained any enthusiasm for the process later in the week. -_-

[archangelbeth]

Make the bird a different color, and put a high transparency on it and see how it goes? >_>
Possibly shrink bird, too, so the wings fit within the moon's confines. later in the week. O:>