the cover, redux

So. This is the original image:


Which, as you can see, is not the whole clock. It's also cropped so that I can't move the hands of the clock far enough to the right to get them both onto the front of the book without enlarging the image so much that the numerals get cropped to the point where it's hard to recognize that it's a clock. Can't really flip a clock image, either. It would look weird. Also, I need enough dark space to put the title, my name, etc., on, too.

I really don't want to spend another entire day in which I could be working on Reunion looking for art for this short story, plus I really like this image, plus there's no guarantee I'd find anything better, since I already spent most of yesterday looking and this was the best I could come up with.

Any other suggestions, given these restrictions, for making the clock more obviously a clock?

This, BTW, is what the ebook version of the cover I posted yesterday looks like, so, no, the hands are mostly on the front. Not completely, but mostly.

redone cover

So. This, with some cogent advice from thnidu, is the new and, I hope, improved version of the cover, for the paper book.



And this is the e-cover:



Comments, pretty please?

And now it's on to the blurb.