In my last newsletter, I asked my readers for some advice.
For those of you who don’t get my newsletter (or just haven’t voted yet) my survey is still open. What’s it all about, you ask?
My cover art for Into the Shadow Wood was custom made by a wonderful artist–and it’s gotten a lot of attention. Readers helped me choose from a couple different concept designs for that cover, and they were totally right!
Now I am considering redesigning my Journey to Aviad and Ancient Voices covers too, so that they match in style and quality. I would release them when my next book is finished.
But before I go back to the artist and have him get to work, I’ve got a decision to make. Should I have him take the existing images and recreate them (or something similar) in his style? Or should I go with a completely new design?
I am not a marketing expert, and most of you probably aren’t either. But that doesn’t matter–you are my audience. You know what you like, and what you don’t, right? So I’m open and ready to listen.
I’ve got a survey set up, and I would appreciate any advice you have. Here are the book covers so you can see the old versus the new. (Click to see them enlarged.)
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- Threatening clouds and fierce storms besiege the city of Tyroc. More frequent and powerful than ordinary storms, young Elowyn, a weaver’s daughter living in the outskirts of the city, senses something disturbing and unnatural about them. https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Aviad-Wind-Rider-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B006G2EX86/ref=sr_1_8?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1503961256&sr=1-8&keywords=Allison+D.+Reid
Allison D. Reid 
I still think you should come up with entirely new concepts that are similar to the Into the Shadow Wood cover.
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I am thinking about it, but my survey results aren’t going in that direction so far.
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If you’re torn then perhaps offer a text or verbal description, but don’t show the artist the original covers. In that way you can send them in the same direction while still leaving them open. For example, for Journey to Aviad you could say “stone ruins, archways covered in vines.”
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I am pretty sure he has seen them already, but he may have some ideas of his own. I fully intend to pick his artistic brain.
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