Humphrey ArcherMar 10

Hey #reading and #writingcommunity and #bookstodon people, I have a cover and title question

My fiction work is mainly short story collections. I publish the shorts when the pile of completed work reaches around 50k words, and thus far, have kept the same cover and title, and just incremented the volume counter.

Keeping the cover static saves a ton of cost and time, but in the D2D views, the Title and collection being the same may be hard for #readers to tell them apart.

Any thoughts?

Show threadJosh SutphinMar 10

@screwturn I have a couple!

1. You can use a color field to further differentiate them. ACOTAR does this quite boldly. (see first image + alt)

2. I've seen this one only rarely, but spreading one image across all the covers of the series to they fit together. I bashed together a super rough mockup with some random stock art to illustrate the concept. (see second image + alt)

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Holy fuck, #2 is an amazing idea! That would never have occurred to me in a century
Mar 10 at 7:04pmWeb
Show threadJosh SutphinMar 10
@screwturn I really wish I could remember the title or author of the series I first saw this technique used on. I *think* it was a series of academic books on human anatomy but I can't remember enough text-searchable details to successfully find it again. 😭 But it looked *so good*.