Hi! Currently immersed in writing my first fantasy novel and this was the perfect "double down and get that word count in" video for tonight! I'm glad to have stumbled across your platform!
(Copy and paste from a different account I didn't realize I was on until after I looked) I wish some Trad publishers would listen to this advice because I noticed that when they republished "new" covers for older books, they try to "upgrade" them without actually paying attention to the actual content. They market The Rowen by Anne McCaffery as a Scifi Romance much like how you are marketing yours but the first half the book doesn't even have romance as it's more focusing on the scifi and setting and it's the second half of the books where it's the Romance and even then it's more B plot. The summery doesn't protray the actual story as well well as they try to make it feel like a Fantasy Romance. I've seen so many 1 to 2 stars because people wanted a Scifi Romance and what they got was heavy on the Scifi and a Romance B plot. I personally love the book and I even have read her other works but they did the Rowen dirty with the new cover. Same issue happened with Mercades Lackey's Mage Wars trilogy. The books are following Gryphons as the main charaters, but they're putting it as an erotica with a half undressed man in the front who is only even just one of the povs of the book that happened to be human. If you look up the Black Gryphon, the White Gryphon, and the Silver Gryphon and look at their Audible and mass market Paperback on Amazon.... it does not fit what the actual origonal covers were like. I have seen these things several times with books I love and it's driven me up the wall with how fustrating it is to see people being duped because the traditonal marketing is trying to market to people who aren't looking for those particular books and missing the actual targeted audiance.
I see. I turned up the volume and hear it is fire. I thought maybe, since you write, you used a typewriter, and you were transporting yourself into this environment.
Thank you! 🥰 It's a sci-fi romance set in the future where biological modification have become the norm. Junia, one of the few remaining unmodified, gets a job for Aurelius, the first fully engineered person. His presence is unsettling, yet she cannot help but wonder what goes on behind those piercing blue eyes. ✨
