I did a thing last week. Did you see it online? I debuted a new book cover for The Murder Lawyer. It’s flashy, provocative, and so awesome! A million times better than the cover I created myself.
Why did I change the cover? Well, even though we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, we do.
I received some amazing feedback that The Murder Lawyer is excellent writing and has the potential to be a bestseller, but its book cover was unremarkable. Without an eye-catching cover, this book that I worked on for over two years would probably be overlooked again and again.
When you get a critique like that, you have to take action. So I did.
The new cover is now what readers will see when they buy the book from their favorite booksellers like B&N and Amazon. Over the next few days, the new cover will begin showing up on other sites as well, including my website and IndieBound. I’ll update the “Current Catalog” section of my weekly emails by next week to reflect the change too.
It’s a lot of work to go back and change things, but it’s worth it because I love this book I wrote and I want readers to love it too. They can only love it if they’re willing to take a chance on it and this new cover says “Read me NOW!”
If you’re a writer reading this post, take this advice: Get a professional cover! I tried to skip this step, even though I know better, and do it myself and it didn’t work. This new book cover works!
Have you read The Murder Lawyer?
Not a reader, but know someone who’d love this book? Help me spread the word and share the new image or the link to this blog post social media. I’d appreciate it so much. This glo-up is one to see!