Have you noticed? The book covers have changed

It’s been a busy month. I’ve just completed revising the book covers for the first three books of the series and I’m really pleased with the result. As always, it’s been a privilege to work with Cover Designer Larch Gallagher, whose creativity, attention to detail and regular communication makes working together a real pleasure.

The models have changed

While working on Book 4’s cover (The Lost Beginnings – yes there’s a new book on the way and I’ll share more on this in a later blog), Larch suggested that it would be good to switch to models who had several images and poses available. It’s certainly made it easier for the first three book covers, so that the same ‘Yas’ and ‘Sam’ could be used consistently across these.

This was a great suggestion and solved a challenge we’d already hit for the original book 3 cover (The Shadow Readers). It used a different model for Sam, because the positioning of the image for the book 2 (The Twisting Tales) didn’t work as well as we’d hoped.

As a result, the models for Yas, Sam and Penn have changed for the covers of the first three books and on this website. If you spotted the change, that’s the reason why. For the really observant among you, there’s still an older post on the facebook page that has the previous Yas model. I’ll leave that there for posterity.

Results

I’m really pleased with the results, and I highly recommend Larch for any author who’s interested in creating a book cover for their own published works. If you’d like to see the result for yourself, please go and buy one of the books. And if you already have a copy of a previous version of the cover, I hope it becomes a valuable collectors edition at some point in the future. Time will tell.

To buy one of the books with the new cover, please use the link below.