It’s a nerve-wracking time for an author, when he or she is waiting on cover art. You never know what you’re going to get. We have so much control over our stories, but covers are conceived in some magical place most authors are never privy to. If we’re lucky, our editors ask for our thoughts (mine did), but more often than not what we get is what we get.
Now, I can tell a story. I can paint pretty pictures on a page using words. I can do lots of things—and fairly well. But I’m as visually artistic as a pile of still-blind newborn puppies. So I went into this without anything in mind, as far as covers go. I was quite happy to let the professionals do their jobs.
But I was nervous—oh-so nervous. Because covers can make or break books.
But it turns out I was wasting time worrying, because my US publisher gave me the amazing cover art above.
And my UK publisher gave me the wildly different, but no less incredible, cover below.
Each captures a piece of the story perfectly.
Well done, cover artists. Well done. I can’t wait to hang these on my office wall!
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Wowza, both covers are incredible! Did you get a whiff of that? That’s what future bestselling books smell like!
Thanks, Jen!!
I thoroughly approve of the vultures on the UK cover. Yay, vultures!!
Thanks, Libbie!! I have serious cover-love going on right now.