Book Covers: Stock Beware Revisited

I’ve posted before about using stock photos for book covers, which you can find here. In that post, the photo in question lends itself well to steamy romance, so there was no chance it would ever end up on one of my novels.

Conventional wisdom is that indie authors ABSOLUTELY SHOULD NOT MAKE THEIR OWN COVERS. I tend to gravitate to simple covers and have the photoshop skills to at least put