a couple more covers

[mmegaera]

Again, completely different. What would be perfect from my point of view and what I can find stock images of are two entirely different critters. Like I said in a comment on the previous post, what I want is a nighttime scene of a dirt road with the rear end of a pickup truck disappearing around a bend in the distance, pine trees crowding either side of the road and only visible because of headlights shining on it from the camera's point of view. But fat chance of finding that in a stock photo [wry g].

The water in this one actually does portray a scene in the book, come to think of it:



And, no, since the whole image is all of a piece (except for the clock superimposition), I cannot remove the clock from the guy's body. That's more graphics skills than I possess.

And here's the other one. Not hilly enough, but works otherwise. Sorta.



The fuzzy part where the edge of the front image (wrapped around the spine) meets the solid gray back was deliberately made fuzzy by me because of POD technology, which has a 1/8" margin for error when it comes to having the edges of images match up precisely with the folds. The fuzziness masks that.

So, do either of these covers yell "woo-woo adventure story" at you?

Comments

[nishatalitha]

I think I like these two more than the last set of five that you posted. They convey (particularly the second one) more of a wilderness feel to me—I think because of the lack of buildings in the images.

My pick, for closest to the image you describe, would be the second one in this post, as it seems darker, there are pine trees, it is dimly lit etc, but if you want a clock superimposed over it that seems less likely to show up.

However, I think the first one works better as an image and it has the bonus of being a scene from the book and the clock shows up nicely; also it says more woo woo adventure story to me. I would probably choose either #2 here or #6 in the previous post. If the graphic artist you worked with on the new covers for the other books could put the clock behind the man, then that might be worth doing.

Could be also worth thinking about what would work best in terms of similar style to the new covers for the Yellowstone books. Just enough to say same author (or cover artist) to a new reader without saying same series, if that makes sense.

[mmegaera]

Thanks. This is really good input.