My latest batch of books came in for approval from Createspace. "Voodoo Conjure" has a small error on the cover involving a light gray patch in the crystal ball, but not worth spending more money on to fix, so I approved it -- overall the book looks very nice.
I decided while I was working this batch I would finally do something about the cover for "The Cartomancer's Key" -- I always hated the cover but I just didn't have the money to improve it. But now I'm doing a little better than I was a year ago so I figured I could invest a little in fixing it up, even though my I Ching advised against it. I should have listened to the I! Now I have a cover that I hate for different reasons (including that the purple is now inexplicably pink). Weirdly it doesn't show that way on the computer, and since that thing is only available online maybe it won't matter. That's one of the few books that sell, so I can't really afford to have it off the market too long to spend money making corrections.
Meanwhile, the cover for "The Conjure Cookbook" was horrible -- it was all pixelated and had weird outlines around the lettering. So, I had to go in and fix it. Hopefully the new version will be okay.
So then, as long as I was at it, I figured I'd sink even more cash into that money pit known as "Fanny Hill" and redo that cover as well.
OLD COVER
NEW COVER
The vague hope, of course, is that Fanny will sell better with a better cover.
I decided while I was working this batch I would finally do something about the cover for "The Cartomancer's Key" -- I always hated the cover but I just didn't have the money to improve it. But now I'm doing a little better than I was a year ago so I figured I could invest a little in fixing it up, even though my I Ching advised against it. I should have listened to the I! Now I have a cover that I hate for different reasons (including that the purple is now inexplicably pink). Weirdly it doesn't show that way on the computer, and since that thing is only available online maybe it won't matter. That's one of the few books that sell, so I can't really afford to have it off the market too long to spend money making corrections.
Meanwhile, the cover for "The Conjure Cookbook" was horrible -- it was all pixelated and had weird outlines around the lettering. So, I had to go in and fix it. Hopefully the new version will be okay.
So then, as long as I was at it, I figured I'd sink even more cash into that money pit known as "Fanny Hill" and redo that cover as well.
OLD COVER
NEW COVER
The vague hope, of course, is that Fanny will sell better with a better cover.