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?
1) They are really difficult to tell apart.
2) As a potential reader I wouldn't know, what content to expect
Suggestions for 1:
Use of different colors and the volume counter much bigger (so it is part of the motive)
Pictures of different arranged screws (the good thing is a big variety of these).
Or arrange the curly swirls in different angles (since the screw is turning)
Suggestions for 2:
Stories / Short Stories ...
Genre might be nice to know, too.
@muenchnerin
Would you want that on front cover or on the back?
Genre is very tricky for me because I straddle several - horror/thriller/mystery/noire/dark-satire.
The short stories are all "Final Destination" meets "The Monkey's Paw", but vary in a lot of specifics. Today My Dude is murdered by an angry crow, tomorrow he is centrifuged into liquid in an industrial washer, the day after he slips and dies because of a cleaning robot.
No core theme
As someone who usually reads e-books: I usually only see the front cover. The text which is on the back usually is in the description, but not shown in any overview ... (and possible design of back cover or spine are unluckily lost for us e-book connoisseurs)
If you can't genre (is this a verb?) your stories more precise - your main theme seems to be mostly dark? So I would put each design on a dark background.
Text:
The Screw Turns
Volume 5
Dark Stories
Humphrey Archer
Humphrey Archer
Berg am Laimerin (v2)