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Originally Posted by Dazrin
Brandon Sanderson has a quote in one of his writing workshops/classes about fulfilling promises, paraphrased poorly: a successful book needs to make promises to readers and then fulfill them in interesting and unexpected ways. He was talking more about content than covers but I think it applies to covers to. For those three books I think the promise is "this is a romance" so I can understand confusion if they are more suspense than romance.
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Thanks Dazrin. I agree. I should've seen the problem (of the covers misrepresenting the stories) earlier but really I was in a quandary as to what genre (if any) my books were. What I still struggle with is if the book covers are okay having a more symbolic representation of the story (as in the SAVING BABY cover) or require a more literal representation (as in the MAN OF GOD cover). But I suppose there's a feeling that eventually comes that says, 'Yeah, that's what I want it to convey.' (Hopefully anyway!)
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Originally Posted by Dazrin
His fonts are fairly close to each other but he has at least three different fonts for his titles. The first two books (Mystic River and The Drop) use different title and author fonts from the last three. He has also changed the kerning of the fonts between World Gone By and The Given Day, even if they are the same font, so that makes a difference too.
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Yeah, you're right. I noticed the title for THE DROP being different but did not notice the other differences. I think I'm going to stay with the same fonts to give a strong branding aspect (like I think the font for the title for THE DROP shouldn't be so different than the font for the other titles), but experiment with adding texture to the titles and my name. That may provide just enough differentiation (as well as the difference in cover concepts) so that the books are similar enough to be branded but different enough to not be thought of as a series.
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Now, not to beat a dead horse. LOL I now understand what you mean by the "both pictures" but I don't see what the below sentence means. How can the pictures not be adjacent to each other if I'm keeping them? And how is the title "above"? Above what? The bottom picture? And how is (whatever you meant) that easy to mess up and make it look muddled?
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If you are keeping both pictures I certainly wouldn't have them adjacent to each other with the title above, too easy to mess that up and make it look muddled.
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Sorry, but these things bug me. LOL