A few days ago I rushed out a link to a review of Radio Red, over at:
http://minothouseatpoohcorner.com/2017/09/28/radio-red/#.WdEoD-OO318.blogger
And thanks so much for it! Then things happened, and I didn't get it out on all my social media or get a chance to comment on it much. (I think the original post was what ... Sunday? Lots of bad has happened since then.) I decided to just start over from scratch, and include the news that there's also a new review of The No-Campfire Girls over on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/review/R4Q9PUYF605OV/?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=149755926X
There's another review of Radio Red further down on my Amazon reviews, and also one of Strange Portals since I reported last, which was some time ago due to stuff, and things. I want to thank everyone who's taken the time to write a review. If sales are what pay the bills, reviews are what feed the sales.
The picture of the book cover makes me wonder: where does that come from? Is it specially made for the book, with models and the matching utensils like the microphone?
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Their artist uses stock photos and combines them together--something I didn't know until I saw the main character from "Storm Chaser" on a Facebook add for photography. So the two people, the microphone, and the scenery are all separate elements. The artist's original cover had more hilly landscaping, and she changed it to look more like what that area of northwest lower Michigan really looks like.
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So Photoshop saved the day again... :)
Yeah, the landscape I assumed to be a stock photo, as there are millions around. I just wasn't sure about the folks. Somehow - but that my personal feeling - they look a bit too "clean". Not authentic, if you know what I mean. Like the models in mail order catalogs (if they still exist), with the snow white teeth and the handsome look. But its not really important for the book, I guess.
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I'd say it probably is important for the book--a lot of people still make their initial choices on the cover, or so I've been told. Personally, I go more by the blurb and the opening pages. They not who I would have picked as a first choice, but on the other hand I didn't have to pay for cover design, so there's that!
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I meant the details of the picture, that I mentioned. Yes, the picture as such is important I guess. It identifies the genre of the book on the shelve, before you have read anything. Romance, idyllic landscapes and so on, that attracts buyers who look for this kind of reading.
Well, there are different ways to approach this, I guess. Some authors go without any pictures, letting the imagination of the people spark curiosity (if it works). Or they use a simple drawn symbol.
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It seems like with romances it's always either one or both protagonists on the cover, or a something akin to flowers and pastel colors. Personally, I'd take the characters, but I understand the reasoning behind not showing them.
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