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Old 09-02-2021, 12:32 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by gmw View Post
I've sent a PM, but there are also links in my signature. Since it sounds like you're going to look anyway, I think it's sufficiently on topic to say here: Yes I did my own covers, and yes I think it shows. I like them well enough, and I've certainly seen worse, but I think they're missing touches that say professional production. I think they actually worked pretty well on the print editions, but not so much for the e-books. I really could have done with help in the blurbs.

So my suggestion about seeking professional help is based on personal experience as well as wider research - watching the results for other authors posting here and seeing the dramatic difference a professional cover can make. I had the technical skills if not necessarily the artistic ones, but mostly I lacked the relevant experience and emotional distance required to create something appropriate for the true purpose: selling the books.
Thank you for this update. I will get your books no matter what. But I hope I don't dislike them. It would make the idea of me writing a good book all the more daunting. But I'm more eager than daunted.
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