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Old 09-06-2015, 05:12 PM   #56
Gregg Bell
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I agree the green one is horror. (It's like all these covers, there's always something good about them.)

I am really leaning toward the baby one, though, which is below.



Some people have ripped on it. Saying it's redundant. (Baby in the title, baby in the photo.) Which is true. Some say it looks like non-fiction. But I don't think non-fiction would have that big red BABY title. Some say it doesn't convey suspense. I don't know about that--the baby has sad eyes and is pushing his mouth into the crib. And the red in the title tells you danger.

As ducks said the tagline helps with the idea of suspense.

But, the thing is, many people, especially many women, have loved this cover. (One woman said, 'there is no woman that is not going to love that pic.' And that when they find out the story is about abuse (via the tagline) they will want to read the blurb. One woman said when she read the tagline she cried.)

And as for not having the baby on the cover I have seen many suspense books with the baby on the cover.

It's like I said, There's always something good about every cover. (That green one will stand out as a thumbnail.) But there is no perfection. At some point, I just have to decide.
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