Jackbird Lee

I mentioned a while back that I was re-making the cover for my upcoming book, Welcome to Dead Man's Creek. Well, here it is:

I'm really excited about it! It feels a lot better than the original cover I made. There were two main reasons for the cover change; first of all, as I mentioned, the previous cover just didn't 'feel' right. It was a little too weighted towards the mystery genre. While I do hope I'm delivering a good mystery with this book, that's not really why I expect people will be picking it up - the mystery is the subplot. It also felt a little too slick and polished, when the vibes of the series are more raw and gothic.

The other reason was that the original cover used some assets from Midjourney, and their recent legal issues made me second-guess the wisdom of using those assets.

I've had some people asking me about my cover-making process, because I do make all of my own covers. It's partly a cost-saving thing but also I'm just kind of a control freak. If I'm going to put out a generic cover, I guess I'd just rather that be because I failed to make a good cover, rather than because I paid someone who didn't 'get' my genre or my awesome readers.

If you want to learn more about how I approached conceptualizing and making this new cover, then read on:

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