A Book by Its Cover

Posted on October 31, 2017 Updated on October 30, 2017

If you follow any writing or book marketing blogs – or if you happen to love reading – you’re surely quite aware of how powerful a good cover can be! I’ve discussed the topic in several posts, including What makes an Amazon Bestselling Novel? and Finding Your Target Reader. I won’t drone on about the subject here, because I hope I’m preaching to the choir by now (pardon the cliche)! but I thought it would be fun see the before and after of a recent cover change, and take a look at the results!

The first book I ever wrote, The Rancher Takes a Cook, was published by Prism Book Group in 2015. I was having good success with the other indie titles I had released during that time, and chose to individually publish books 2 & 3 in that series.

I knew it would be critical for the covers of books 2 & 3 to match the traditionally published book 1, so readers would be able to find all the books in the series. Read the rest of this entry »