The benefit of making your own book cover is that it’s relatively cheap in terms of dollars, though not always in terms of time. The downside is that if it doesn’t look how you expected, you have no one to blame but yourself.
I made the original Books & Broadswords cover, and while I liked it, something about it bugged me, especially at small sizes. So I made another one, then another one, and finally this one, which is the one I’m finally happy with. And since I’ve sent it off to my agency to be updated at the various retailers and I don’t want them to reach through the internet tubes and murder me for being indecisive, this is going to be the final form.
It’s brighter and matches the cozy fantasy vibe a little better. Behold!
The new cover is still rolling out to retailers, and since I replaced the file here on my blog without updating the name, you may see the old version until it falls out of the browser cache, but the image above is an entirely new file, so you should be seeing a cover with large white text, a rose border, and various icons on a purple dragon scale background.
If not, blame the gremlins. :)
I finished edits this week, and the print preorder will hopefully go up next week. The stories didn’t change too much, but I did add around 1400 words, bringing the total word count up to just under 35k, so you’ll get a little more story with your story.
If you want to secure yourself a copy for the June 11 release, I’ll drop some handy links below. Happy almost Friday!
Preorder Now!
Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Apple Books | Google Play | Kobo
When in doubt with tech problems, blame the gremlins. 😂😂😂
Looking forward to reading the book.
oooh pretty cover :)
Looks awesome!
Loveee it!!
It looks really pretty! Love the little dragon on top, so cute!
Oooooh. What a delicious cover. Totally an attention-getter!
It’s beautiful, well done.
Love the new cover’s balance and depth! Also the book, because fun:)