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Friday, July 12, 2013

Cover Poll

Hey all. So here's the deal for today. I'm crunched for time and really, really, really want to get The Thousand Year Curse published as soon as possible. I'm very eager to hear what everyone has to say. So... I have three cover choices that I'm struggling with and would LOVE your feedback and to vote for the best!

Here is number one...


Number Two...

Number three...

So... tell me what you think. Which is the best cover? Why do you like that one more? I could really use the honest feedback so lay it on me! I need the them! Vote below :)

P.S. If anyone does reviews and wants an ARC or author interviews or would like to spotlight my book or I during the launch week contact me. I want to get everything lined up and have a great time with it! Talk to you all soon. Thanks for the support. 

(Drag them in the order from favorite to least favorite!) Thanks!


16 comments:

  1. I chose cover number two. The main reason I didn't care for #1 or #3 was the green line dividing the covers. If there was no green line on cover #1, I think I might have chose that cover over #2.

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    1. Why didn't you like the line? The main reason I put it there was so that the bodies/heads weren't just floating. Was it the separation?

      Thanks for the feedback! I appreciate it Susanne

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  2. I'll be honest... none of these look like a book cover. They actually look more like album covers.

    #1 is okay, but the text sortof gets lost in the background (especially the author name).

    #2 is too vacant.

    #3 has the people's heads chopped off, which just looks weird.

    If this is a book cover, it needs to *look* like a book cover.

    Figure out who your target audience is, what would appeal to them, and bridge that into your story. Then figure out what would make a good cover.

    As these are now, I'm thinking contemporary or even teen romance? If that's not what you were going for, then you still have work to do.

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    1. It's a young adult fantasy. I guess the main issue I'm having is I hate when faces are on covers. I like imagining my own people but most covers in the genre are people. Number one is probably my favorite but I get where you say the text is lost.

      Originally I had just the background image but it seemed boring. I'm kind of stuck!

      Thanks for the advice though, Thomas. I really appreciate it!

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  3. Hi Taylor, here's my 2 cents worth. I like number two the best.
    Of the others, I prefer the one with the faces - the headless bodies don't do it for me.
    Stephen King (talking about writing feedback, but I think it applies here) says if your feedback is conflicting, the casting vote goes to the writer.
    Covers take a lot of thought so good luck with the decision.

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    1. Yeah it's such a pain. This is just round one so I'm not too worried because I can veto them all if I want but still. Why do you like two?

      Ps. Thanks for the feedback. :)

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  4. I prefer #1 over all the rest, but I agree with Thomas that the text, especially the most important text, your name, gets lost against the background.

    I think that both the text for both the title and author name should be larger, too.

    Also, the dimensions are wrong. It should be in the tall novel format. I'm always leery of books I see in the Kindle store with square book covers. I just assume they're full of bad grammar and editing. That's just my prejudice though.

    I'm looking forward to seeing version two! Good luck.

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    1. Thanks for the feedback! I definitely agree about the title and author name.

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  5. You seem to be kinda stuck on the green color but I don't think it stands out well enough against the black and white background. I would not choose any of these colors because, though nice, they are not eye-catching enough. I think #2 is best, but like I said, the green doesn't stand out enough. I reject the other two mostly because heads are cut off. #1 would be best if you dropped the bottom pic down so that faces were roughly centered. And please choose a different color than green. It needs to POP! Heck, try bright red for the line and the text. You are talking 'curse'.

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    1. I would have chosen red but it makes the text unreadable. Plus the green goes along with the story which is the main reason I chose it. For me, the green definitely pops. I don't know what other color would pop more. Thanks for the feedback!

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  6. I choose number one but at the same time it was harder to read your name at the bottom. The first has the title better though.

    Number two would be my second choose.

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    1. Yeah, I'm definitely going to have to play with it more. I didn't realize the texts weren't as visible. Back to the drawing board! Thanks for stopping by!

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  7. I guess I don't really "Love" any of them. I love the black and white with the green, it really makes the green pop. I also love the background you've used for 1 & 3.

    I read some of the previous comments, and I understand the desire to not have faces, but the way they've been chopped off in 3, it's uncomfortable.

    Maybe try going back to the background, and figuring out a way to spice it up. Maybe try making the people in one transparent, so that they almost fade into the ground of the background? I don't know what kind of curse the book is about, but would that make sense?

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    1. Thanks for commenting! I definitely like the fade out idea. I think I just need to find a better picture of the trio so that they're backwards or something. I don't know! HAHA. Thanks!

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  8. I love the third cover! The contrast between the black-and-white, grim image of the tree and the in-color image of three people was awesome and looked very artistic. It also gave me a sense that the mood/tone would have dark overtones with modern characters/possibly a love story or a dark lover story. That was my main problem with the first two covers -- they seemed overly sentimental for a book called "The Thousand-year curse." Also, the 2nd cover has only two people and already seems to give the ending away with them holding hands, promising a HEA. The other two covers have 3 people, telling me that these three people are bound up in this curse some way.

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