But that's not why I did my own.
I like completing a project. The cover is part of the whole book and I do have some things I want to show. And I love art. I paint, draw and do other kind of brochure, design work on the side so the book cover is something I want to do.
In Soul Mates the main character goes to heaven; see sky and clouds. She comes back to earth as a dog; see paw prints.
Now I worry that this cover is a bit simplistic. I worry if people will get the right message. I want the readers who like dogs and maybe a bit of the heaven-god story peeps too.
The only thing I don't have is the actual dog and I vacillated quite a bit over finding a dog to put on the cover. Then I wondered if this wasn't your kind of dog would you turn away because it wasn't the dog sitting at your feet. So dog came off the cover and now I wonder if THAT was the right move. Decisions, decisions, decisions.... So? Opinions?
2 comments:
I absolutely love it. But I should confess we have 5 dogs!
Anyway, I paid a lot for the cover you'll see at my blog, and the print layout, eBook layout, etc. When we finally got an offer to take White Cat Publications, LLC. to a major book distributor and had to come up with the funds to get things going, I started a Kickstarter project (which is the topic of my Sunday post).
But we were looking at doing a dog-centric book soon and I think I might go to the creative community there for this project.
Maybe you might consider that.
But the cover- I'm going to cast my vote for great.
Looks good to me. Very professional.
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