Today
I was telling my great aunt about the design of the cover of my latest
book, Book 5 in The Flirting Games Series, and she told me that my
covers were all wrong. Apparently readers want more romance and my
"quirky" covers are not selling that.
Bare in mind that my great aunt has not actually ever read one of my books, but she suggested I should have more "Fabio" on the front. Well, I had to look that one up. It turns out that Fabio was the model used on hundreds of book covers back in the 1980's. Even you, dear readers born after that date will probably recognise him, heck he even wrote a few books starring - yes you guessed it - himself on the cover!
Check these out:
Bare in mind that my great aunt has not actually ever read one of my books, but she suggested I should have more "Fabio" on the front. Well, I had to look that one up. It turns out that Fabio was the model used on hundreds of book covers back in the 1980's. Even you, dear readers born after that date will probably recognise him, heck he even wrote a few books starring - yes you guessed it - himself on the cover!
Check these out:
So
what do you think? Is this really the type of romance I write? I think
my aunt has a very different view of my work than I do.
She thinks my books are like this:
She thinks my books are like this:
But in reality they are much more like this:
So what do you think? Should my covers be way more slushy? Or do you like them as they are? Keep checking the website for a sneak preview of the new cover, coming soon!
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