by

I Need a Little Help with Book Covers

armadillo-1169132_960_720

I need your help with book covers.

My lovely book designer (for reasons beyond her control) had to back out of doing covers for my book series. My publishing deadline is August 20, which in book-time translates to pressure. I need to submit to Createspace on Thursday 🙂 Yikes!

So, I spent the weekend pulling together some covers until my brain turned to mush and I lost all perspective. You are all so sweet and supportive, but I need honest feedback. Your candid opinions are not only welcome but invaluable! And don’t worry, I have armadillo skin.

Here they are:

Thanks!

Cover Myths - Final

Myths of the Mirror (Book 1)

 

Cover Fire - Final

Eye of Fire (Book 2)

 

Cover Blind - Final

Eye of Blind (Book 3)

 

Cover Sun - Final

Eye of Sun (Book 4)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Another Note: I completely forgot to include in my Interview of Steven Baird the link to his blog. So, here it is: Ordinary Handsome. Definitely worth checking out (After you help me with my covers! Ha ha! 🙂 )

172 thoughts on “I Need a Little Help with Book Covers”

  1. http://www.salpa58.wordpress.com says:
    August 31, 2016 at 10:59 am

    I like First and Last, good luck with your venture.

    Liked by 1 person

  2. Marje @ Kyrosmagica says:
    August 20, 2016 at 12:28 am

    They all look pretty eye catching. The first and last are my favourites!

    Liked by 1 person

  3. cathleentownsend says:
    August 17, 2016 at 5:42 pm

    I like the last one best. Using different pallettes for each book was a good call. I hope the covers help boost readership. I’ve never tried it myself, but I’ve read from reputable people that it’s a good way to give an existing series fresh interest. 🙂

    Liked by 1 person

    • D. Wallace Peach says:
      August 17, 2016 at 5:59 pm

      I made changes to all of the Cathleen, though they are still generally the same, if that makes sense. The dragons are all different now (the biggest change). The publisher’s covers didn’t thrill me, so I didn’t want to purchase them. And now I can brand the series. I think it’s going to help 🙂 Thanks for weighing in!

      Liked by 1 person

  4. Santosh Namby says:
    August 17, 2016 at 8:42 am

    I’ve come too late to your blog to be of help, but I have to say I loved all of them, especially the green one 🙂

    Liked by 1 person

  5. reocochran says:
    August 13, 2016 at 11:38 am

    I liked these all and possibly they have been tweaked since you received so many marvelous comments. Diana, I was very sympathetic to the loss of your artist, book designer. Take care and you are almost finished with the cover details. Cheers! 🙂

    Liked by 1 person

    • D. Wallace Peach says:
      August 13, 2016 at 2:52 pm

      Thanks Robin 🙂 I submitted them this morning so they are being reviewed by Amazon. I’m on schedule and will show them off with all the modifications next week! Hope you are having a great weekend 🙂

      Liked by 1 person

  6. Lori L MacLaughlin says:
    August 13, 2016 at 9:11 am

    I don’t know if you’re still looking for comments or not, but it you are, these were my first impressions. I love the background pattern and the color variations of the four books. I also like the fonts used. The title and author name are a little hard to read on the fourth one. I think the covers would be better, though, if each book had a different dragon on it for variety. The same dragon on all four books was a little too much repetition for me.

    Liked by 1 person

  7. Teagan Geneviene says:
    August 12, 2016 at 9:53 am

    Hi Diana. I’m sorry to be too late for the “party”… but it looks like you got a ton of comments. For my 2 cents’ worth — I like them. I think related images are very important for a series. So I like that you’ve used basically repeat images in different colors.

    Liked by 1 person

    • D. Wallace Peach says:
      August 12, 2016 at 10:17 am

      I ended up making quite a few tweaks based on the suggestions and dismembered and reassembled the dragons so there is a little variety. 🙂 Everyone was hugely helpful as I knew they would be. Thanks for chiming in. I appreciate it!

      Liked by 1 person

  8. Kev says:
    August 11, 2016 at 12:33 pm

    The covers work… Love ’em. 😊

    Liked by 1 person

  9. Tara Sparling says:
    August 11, 2016 at 3:13 am

    Wishing you the very best of luck, Diana. That’s a ferocious deadline in itself. Glad your commenters have you covered 😀

    Liked by 1 person

  10. Marlyn Exconde says:
    August 10, 2016 at 11:56 pm

    have seen them days before then i came back. after several days, i’d still say covers 1 and 3 stood out. best of luck D
    ❤

    Liked by 1 person

    • D. Wallace Peach says:
      August 11, 2016 at 6:26 am

      Thanks, Marlyn! After all the comments, the biggest change I made was dismembering and reassembling the dragons so now they’re all different! Plus making the lettering a little easier to read. Thanks so much for the feedback. I’m glad you like my emergency efforts. 😀

      Liked by 1 person

  11. sonshinegreene says:
    August 10, 2016 at 7:16 pm

    Beautiful looking dragon!

    Liked by 1 person

  12. joannesisco says:
    August 10, 2016 at 1:40 pm

    I’m so late to this party and my observation about the visibility of your name has already been addressed … so all I’m going to say is GOOD LUCK!! 🙂

    Liked by 1 person

    • D. Wallace Peach says:
      August 10, 2016 at 5:39 pm

      Thanks, Joanne. I worked on making all the lettering stand out more. Plus lots of other ideas that people had. Everyone was sooo helpful. What a difference! Can’t wait to post them again after they’re official. 🙂

      Liked by 1 person

  13. Jyotsna says:
    August 10, 2016 at 11:31 am

    Lovely post , and I don’t know why I’m not able to follow u .. 😦

    Liked by 1 person

    • D. Wallace Peach says:
      August 10, 2016 at 5:35 pm

      I have no idea why you aren’t able to follow. 😦 Do you have a website? Are you a new blogger? Perhaps your website needs a little setting up so that the sites link. Sorry I can’t be of any help ❤

      Like

  14. spiritualitystar says:
    August 10, 2016 at 11:02 am

    I would go with the photo of the armadillo

    Liked by 1 person

  15. Sue Vincent says:
    August 10, 2016 at 1:49 am

    They look awesome, Diana.

    Liked by 1 person

Comments are closed.