Once Upon A Christmas (reissue)
I was delighted when Signet announced they were re-issuing my RITA-nominated Once Upon A Christmas -- not least because I knew they'd be taking a second crack at the cover art.
It's not easy to convey the essence of a book at a single glance. This is why publishers often pay a book's cover artist considerably more than they pay the author. (Much to the author's chagrin.) It is the cover that makes a reader pick the book off the shelf and open it. If the cover doesn't "grab" you, you'll never even look at the text. Sad but true.
This cover will never hang on a wall at the Louvre. But it does its job. It nails the book. If you are wandering through a bookstore, looking for something (a) Christmasy, (b) sweet, and (c) romantic, you are going to pick this sucker off the shelf and open it.
After that, it's all up to me.
I hope you like it.
I made a book video for this one. I'm not sure how it turned out, but at least it's short:
It's not easy to convey the essence of a book at a single glance. This is why publishers often pay a book's cover artist considerably more than they pay the author. (Much to the author's chagrin.) It is the cover that makes a reader pick the book off the shelf and open it. If the cover doesn't "grab" you, you'll never even look at the text. Sad but true.
This cover will never hang on a wall at the Louvre. But it does its job. It nails the book. If you are wandering through a bookstore, looking for something (a) Christmasy, (b) sweet, and (c) romantic, you are going to pick this sucker off the shelf and open it.
After that, it's all up to me.
I hope you like it.
I made a book video for this one. I'm not sure how it turned out, but at least it's short:
