Original Romance, EBooks, Cover Art and a Poll

[scatteredlogic]

A fair percentage of my flist is working on original fiction, and I have several published authors on my flist. Some are published in print, some are digitally published (or e-published, if you prefer), and some are both. Today, though, I'm going to focus on digital publishing.

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[_lady_narcissa_]

Does it with ebooks? See the only people I know who buy ebooks buy them for the author. I don't know anyone who just goes and browses ebooks the way they do print copies. So my experience with ebooks is that the cover has very little to do with the selection. Especially since they aren't continually confronted with the cover the way they are with a hard copy.

For covers in general...be it an ebook or a hard copy, I find my preferences depend on the type of book. It if is a romance I really don't want to see a face of the hero on the cover. Rarely if ever (with only one artist being the exception) I find the artist depicts the hero the way I would ever envision him (even if the author thinks otherwise!) and I prefer the face to be left to the imagination. So for a romance, I would go with Cover No. 1 because it is less specific about his face and the reader can supply the missing details in their mind. Cover No. 2 is too specific for me for a romance hero. I think this is why we are now seeing the trend of "headless" heroes and heroines on a lot of romance covers these days.

[scatteredlogic]

It does for me, at any rate. I won't support things I find offensive, so no money for them from me. But that's something I'm going to talk about more tomorrow. ;)

I think this is why we are now seeing the trend of "headless" heroes and heroines on a lot of romance covers these days.

I've noticed that trend, and I think it was fine when it first started, mainly because it was something different, but it's become so prevalent that now I find it boring. I just look at them and think, "Meh. Another headless body." ;)