I spent some time working on my book cover for the next installment of The Mechanical Bird today.
That cover and title "The Country Girl and Noblewoman" is what I'm going with. It plays on the "The Tale of Two Ladies" title from the first book. The other books after this would also be named similarly to give you a hint to the progression of each character's story arcs.
The working title was "The Royal Academy" -- hence the royal purple and gold. I had a lot of space leftover on the old cover so I toyed with doing an illustration of both characters to fill that space. But yesterday while walking through Santa Monica I came up with a different title (the one above) and it fills the entire cover. I like the idea that it's purely a typography thing and gives me more words to play with. Maybe I can switch out some of the gears and do something else -- I kinda have an idea for that.
As for the illustration, maybe I'll include it in the back of the book, but it only adds more memory to the download and besides, I'd rather you imagine the characters the way you want.
Lastly, that's the old cover. I made that back in February 2017 with the emphasis on the series name. If you can imagine, seeing, say 6-7 of these books with only the series name in bold you might think they're all the same book and be confused. I want to use a similar typography style (and that dope-ass slant for the text) and similar artwork (i.e. gears, silhouettes, swirls, etc) to remind you that it's in the same series. Plus the series name is secondary on the cover.
I'm on the verge of releasing this book. It'll be Amazon Kindle only. I want to read the text again, but maybe it's time to let this one go. It's far from perfect. I'm sure there's still a hundred grammatical errors and a bunch of inconsistencies and spelling errors too, but you know this is a shoestring operation. I'm going to go with what I got.
