It has taken a lot of work to change everything over from Lily Divine to Cara Ward but it's all been worth it and I'm feeling SO excited about getting them out there. Without further ado, here are the covers for my three books:
I couldn't be happier with how they look now - they've come a LONG way and I thought it might be fun to show you just how far they've come...
Original cover for WEIGHTING TO LIVE (don't laugh)...
Back in February 2015, for some reason I got it into my head that I needed to get WEIGHTING TO LIVE up as quickly as possible and as a result, the cover suffered. My mum drew really cute illustrations but it all went downhill when two things happened: 1. I used a really cheap grey and orange paint that was not only patchy, but made the paper crinkle (and showed up hilariously when I scanned it). 2. I then proceeded to outline my mum's lovely pictures in a black felt pen ... very badly. Check out that workmanship on the swan's beak ^^^.
It didn't take long before I realised it was a total disaster and so one night, I started messing around on the very basic Paint program installed on my laptop and came up with this:
Then this:
After that, I played around with the cover design much more until I finally decided on this:
When I knew I had to rejig the covers because of the author name change, I thought I might as well play around with the fonts too and after a few trial runs, I chose this as the final cover for WEIGHTING TO LIVE:
In a bid to not drive you insane, I will show you both the CHANGES and SIXTEEN MONTHS cover progressions but as it's pretty much the same story as WEIGHTING TO LIVE, I'll not bore you with going over everything I've just told you...
Original CHANGES cover, April 2015
*Still haven't mastered that black felt pen...
I used the following cover for quite a while until I realised it needed to be a little more dynamic...
....and so I came up with the next cover, which I used until I decided to change my author name.
And so here is the final cover for CHANGES:
Original cover for SIXTEEN MONTHS, April 2015:
I used the next cover for a while until I decided to change my author name.
Even though I really liked the design I was using above, I knew I wanted a complete change and so I came up with this for the final cover of SIXTEEN MONTHS:
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I think that's definitely enough information for today. I think what I have learned more than anything over my self-publishing journey is that rushing to get it all done, is pointless - slow and steady always win the race.
Cara x
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