For your enjoyment, here is the cover of Christmas in Duke Street.
Nevertheless, she persisted.
I’ll probably shortly write up a post about the process I used to arrive at this cover. I did several rounds of A/B testing… So this cover represents my belief that how a cover looks in thumbnail is crucial and the sometimes surprising, to me, results of A/B testing using pickfu.
I’m diving into final revisions now, so, assuming it’s not way worse than I think, I should have the book on sale in 4-6 weeks.
September.
I need a cover for the digital version of Future Tense.
The hero of that story is a demon who looks to be of Asian/Tibetan descent. It’s a Romance and he’s a demon so of course he is insanely hot.
I have spent the last MONTH looking for stock art of a hot Asian guy that won’t cost me 800 Euros. I would like the model to have long black hair, but at this point, I’m thinking bald would work. I’m getting desperate. In my dreams (heh) he would be with a blond woman. That’s just the reality of my story, OK?
I can find all manner of good looking Asian men doing the follow things:
1. Looking like a geek/nerd
2. Doing Martial Arts
3. Looking like a skinny geek/nerd
4. Talking on a phone.
That’s pretty much it. It’s like no where in the whole world is a stock photo of a hot muscly Asian guy in casual clothes where the subtext is “I am hotter than heck and you want to have sex with me.”
I do NOT want a white guy in the image. Even the headless white quys don’t have skin that passes for Asian-looking demon.
ArghHHHH!!!!!
Seriously, What The F???
I don’t want to whitewash my cover.
Do you have any ideas? (No, I CANNOT steal an image.)