From the time I re-ordered the books in The Owen Family Saga, and then added the Origin Story, That Tender Light, as a novella, I’ve wanted to change the covers on several of the novels, especially the three books published first.
I didn’t want to change the cover of Gone for a Soldier. It’s pretty special as it is, but it had been fifteen years since the first novel was published, and two of them didn’t even have a print edition published by my company, WestWard Books.
Now look:
New Covers on The Owen Family Saga
These changes have been a multi-year, complex process that began when I replaced the cover of Spinster’s Folly. Since then, I’ve been haunting stock photo sites and designers’ pre-made cover pages in an attempt to keep expenses down. A parallel project was to re-format the layout for the interiors of the novels to reflect not only cover credits for the new covers I found, but to make the novels more uniform. I’m almost finished with that project.
Finally, I found the last cover I wanted, but one of the images needed an enhancement to bring the subjects into more prominence. When I was told that wasn’t possible due to the original image file, I elected to find another image that would suit so the designer could change it out. Mind you, this cost me additional money, but I gladly paid it, and the resulting cover is excellent.
I still need to make a few little adjustments, but for all intents and purposes, my huge task is complete, and I can get back to writing.
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