{"id":217,"date":"2012-08-08T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/2012\/08\/08\/of-cover-images-and-series-titles\/"},"modified":"2012-08-08T06:45:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T06:45:00","slug":"of-cover-images-and-series-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/2012\/08\/08\/of-cover-images-and-series-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Cover Images and Series Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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For the past few weeks I’ve been trollin’ around stock photo sites trying to pick a cover image for my upcoming novella release. (Eee! It’s getting closer! CLOSER! Soon I’ll be doing reveals!) It’s been tough. At first I thought I found the perfect image somewhere. The models, with some hair color tweakin’, more or less looked exactly like my MCs! Yay! But there were some…erm…~issuess~ with covering certain body parts up so Amazon and other retailers would not throw a fit over it. Then there was the other issue: “Oh, God, how am I going to find matching images for the sequels?” There was a whole shoot with these same models, but they were either butt-ass naked (which is actually what I DON’T want. Yeah, I had to take my temperature too!) or at an unworkable angle for a book cover. Finally, after seeing my graphic designer\/editor-at-large\/best-friend-forever came up with via a prototype…no, this original image HAS to happen! It just has to! And it will happen! As soon as I buy the rights! \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n

Phew. Yes, that’s been one of my biggest points of stress recently. The other is trying to come up with a series name to list on Amazon and other retailers so they’ll show up nicely on search results. I have at least two more similar stories featuring the same characters planned (one of which I am in the midst of writing now) and have never considered naming them as a series until now. It wouldn’t be something special or even “official”, really. But at this rate it’ll probably get named after a very specific flower.<\/p>\n

Bah. Rambling! I’m sure most of you other writers know how it is. So tell me, especially you self-publishers, how did you go about picking the “perfect” cover image? And those who went trade, how did you find the cover making process? Did you get to have a lot of input let alone the final ok?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Man I hate it when this happens. For the past few weeks I’ve been trollin’ around stock photo sites trying to pick a cover image for my upcoming novella release. (Eee! It’s getting closer! CLOSER! Soon I’ll be doing reveals!) It’s been tough. At first I thought I found the perfect image somewhere. The models,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[153,131,220,227,73,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-becoming-an-author","category-covers","category-novellas","category-process","category-self-publishing","category-series"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRtqI-3v","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}