Trying New Things

Earlier in the year I attended a convention called Inkers Con. It wasn’t to sell books but to learn more of the business side of writing. To expand my horizons on what’s possible. Special book boxes. Ways to market. Ways to find an audiobook reader. What platforms work for each kind of book format. The list was huge! But I wanted to try and learn new things.

The danger in such an event is that there are soooo many options on what can be done, it’s easy to feel like I have to be a high octane person who somehow gets it allllll done to make this business work.

It takes awhile to step back and process what I actually want to do versus what doesn’t fit my writing or the little business I’m building.

To be honest, I’m still processing all the things. But one of the ideas that caught my attention was changing up the ebook covers at will to see what catches peoples’ eyes and what doesn’t. Maybe I’m old fashioned in this. I love print books and once I buy a print book, the cover I see is part of the total package. So the idea of changing covers, well, just felt strange and never occured to me before.

But it’s also an easy thing to play around with to see how an image speaks to readers. So this is one of the ideas I’m trying out.

And my first change up is on the Quaking Soul ebook cover. I actually kind of love it, but it still feels strange. Maybe someday I’ll get over that.