rowyn: (Me 2012)
[personal profile] 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. [livejournal.com profile] alinsa will be doing the actual text layout. I just threw some words on so it would look cover-ish.

The Moon Etherium comparison
[Poll #2054073]

Date: 2016-09-20 01:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] haikujaguar.livejournal.com
My concern is that the similarity in styles will trick people into thinking this is a new series set in the same setting, or that it's the same series, just a different set of books in it. Hopefully the strong contrast in colors will make it obvious it's not, but then when you get to The Sun Etherium... well, we're back to warm colors again.

I can appreciate everyone saying they like the silhouette covers, but they are (helpfully) approaching this book as if it's your only one. I'm looking at your entire work for sale as a whole and saying 'How do we help people figure out which book belongs with which series, and which book to buy next?'

I want you to avoid making the mistakes I did with branding. You have two (now three) books to sell, so it's still early enough that you can keep these things from getting out of hand. If you do what I did and wait until you have 20+ books out, fixing the branding issues so readers can figure out what belongs with what... that becomes horrible and I want to spare you that. -_-

May 2025

S M T W T F S
    12 3
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031

Most Popular Tags

Page Summary

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated May. 30th, 2025 12:14 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios