Monday, June 30, 2025

Help Me Decide on the Covers for My Small Town Series




Here we are, just weeks away from the release of the sixth book in my Small Town Series. This book has been a bear to write, and I'm so grateful it's currently with my editor and almost ready for publication. It's not that I don't love this book—I do—but I tried something tricky, and it tied me up in knots. What did I do? I had book five and book six take place simultaneously. I’ve done this before with The Tick Tock Between Me and You and Dreaming of Me and You, and it wasn’t so hard. 








But my last two Town books had a suspense element, and I couldn’t give away the villain in case someone read book six before book five. So… mental calisthenics.

I'm debating on whether or not to change the covers for my Small Town Series.

It's not that I don't love the covers, but I've discovered an AI-generated tool that can take my still images and turn them into video. I think this is super fun and would make great ads. That's the main reason I'm considering adding people to my covers.

Here are the new cover concepts. What do you think? See the video above.


Which one do you like, the first (the original) or the second?








4 comments:

  1. I like the cover with people in it.

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  2. I like the second (new) cover. The video is a little strange though.

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  3. I prefer the town look. Many times the people do not match the written descriptions. Also, this particular video, the height of the horse jump was unrealistic.

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  4. I prefer the original cover. It matches the title, it makes me think small town, makes me feel small town and it makes me feel a sense of community. While the 2nd cover makes no connection. If you really want to use "people " combine the two. Have two people walk down small town USA, holding hands, maybe eating ice cream, standing looking at each other, etc. Video made no sense to me.

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