Once upon a time, a long time ago, when I was a pretty new author, I published my 4th book.

Yes, that was a long time ago. Way back in March of 2013 to be exact. At that time I didn’t know how to design covers. My first book cover was designed and published by Xulon Publishing. (I’m not a fan of that cover.) My second book cover was a painting I had someone do for me, and then another friend and her brother put the cover together. My third book cover had a drawing by a very talented artist, and my best friend helped me added the title. But my fourth book . . .

Well, I wasn’t sure what to do with it. I hadn’t learned all the things I know now, so I decided to go the easy route. I used a cover template from CreateSpace to create my cover for

The Lower Lights and Other Stories

 

I wasn’t a huge fan of it, but hey, it worked and really wasn’t that bad. Or was it? Go ahead and say it. I don’t like it either.

After I started designing my own covers, I knew I wanted to change the cover of The Lower Lights, but I just never did. I was too busy. But because I was too busy, I also never got it added to my website. Why? Because I didn’t have the front cover image. Since I had designed it from a template online, I didn’t have the cover to turn into a 3D image. So I kept thinking I’d change the cover.

Time passed.

Another year, or two, slipped by.

Near the beginning of this year, I was redoing my “bookshelf” page, and really wanted to add this book to the list. I realized that I could just download the front cover from Amazon. But no sooner had I done that (and mentioned on my Friday blog about wanting a new look), then someone offered to try their hand at a new cover. I sent the image of the trolley over. Then I realized that I needed to do a little editing on the image. So I did, and then played around a bit. Next thing I know, I had a cover.

And so, without any further boring introduction, here it is:

The Lower Lights and Other Stories

To read more about this book, just click on the image. 🙂

Do you like the new cover? Have you read this book yet? Would you like to read and review it for me? If so, let me know and I’d be happy to send you a mobi, pdf, or epub copy. (This offer is only good through the end of the month!)