Cover & Title Changes
Over the years, I've constantly changed or updated my book covers on my published books. This is not to fool readers into buying the book a second time, but to keep the covers from being outdated as the mores for Sci-Fi and Fantasy covers change. Recently a fan asked me for a list of the changes, as she was experiencing difficulty telling which books she had already purchased. I've created a separate page with the old and new covers. Old covers on the left, New covers on the right. If there is only a single cover for a book, then I haven't played around with it. Yet.
Space Colony Journals
aka The Handfasting
In the case of the space colony journals, I changed not only the covers but also the books and series title. They simply weren't selling well. So I had them evaluated, and to my surprise and dismay, I was told that I was sending two different messages causing genre conflicts.
The titles sounded like romance titles. But the books were clearly in the sci-fi genre. Changing genre and titles is a big deal, as it involves unpublishing the books, assigning new ISBN numbers for each book, new covers and an entire new marketing strategy explaining the changes.
Unfortunately, I couldn't stop Amazon from keeping the older titles on their list. I was told that the books under the older titles and series we're now owned by buyer and the buyer could list them as used books for sale whether they had my permission or not. AARGH!
Book 7 Quantum Light never appeared in the Handfasting series, so it has no alternate title
I was actually quite happy with the original cover on Quantum Light. Unfortunately the way I make my covers I use a couple of sites which make the source photos available to multiple graphic designers, authors and artists, I recently discovered someone had used the exact same photo for their book which as it happens was also science fiction. In order to avoid confusion I redid my cover
St. Antoni The Forbidden Colony
I confess this series has had a LOT of cover changes. The titles stayed the same but I have played around with the covers a lot. This year I decided to take a little different track: I put the book blurb description into an AI picture generator to see what I got. I was so happy with the results I did the same for all 4 books.
For Books 4 and 6: The Portal Lawman and the Clone Initiative (which take place on earth) I made the decision to move them into a connectedsecondary series titled This Dystopian Earth
Gateway City
Magi of Rulari
2026 NOTE: Oh, no--she's changed them again!
2023 NOTE: Yes, I'm at it again--I've changed some covers!
I decided the covers for this series wasn't hitting the mark with its target audience which is Fantasy/Science Fiction, so I redesigned them to appeal more to the fantasy fans, even though they are a mixture of both genres. I wasn’t super happy with 2023 covers either, so in 2024 I changed them again!.
The Outlawed Colonies
