@ptHarry
“I found the amazon page for it. Curiously it’s not indexed on Amazon UK, but DuckDuckGo found it on one of Amazon’s international pages.”
I always check to make sure it’s available in all possible markets but it’s possible that it just hasn’t gone through yet. I live in the United States so maybe it ends up publishing there first. But it only published less than a day ago so maybe it’s not available everywhere yet. But I always check and I always click the option of making it available in whatever market, in fact I think that I actually get more sales from the UK including books under my own name and my other pseudonym.
“Looking at the headless women, the obvious solution would be to move the author panel upwards but I assume the cover designer doesn’t give you that flexibility. If that’s the case, it could probably be fixed by making the original image wider and less high. I’ll have a look at that later. But to somebody that doesn’t know what you intended, it probably looks intentional — as if, even though they’re not real people, you wanted to preserve their anonymity.”
It was kind of disappointed with how that came out that this has happened on other books as well, it sort of decapitated my characters but I don’t think it really gives you the option to change that is you can’t sort of move the title up. They sort of give you a limited number of possible cover arrangements and I picked this particular cover because it allows you to put something on the front and the back so that I was able to get both of the images, but yet does kind of look bad that it decapitated the characters. I mean the characters are obviously made using digital animation and they aren’t real women so it’s not a matter of keeping them anonymous it’s just that the picture got cut off unfortunately and I really don’t know how you can really fix that like how you resize these images or whatever it is. That’s why usually go with pretty generic titles and pretty generic covers. A lot of my books I don’t really have any pictures I just have the title or if I can find something freely available on the Internet like clipart or something I will use that. That’s why was kind of getting excited about the idea of AI because I am thinking here I can make my own covers that actually reflect something in the book itself.
“On the back cover, the overlaid text disguises the poor quality faces, though we could probably have improved those with a bit more work.”
I do agree that the text does sort of obscure the picture to some degree but I think that the back cover came out better than the front cover because at least it didn’t decapitate everyone!
“Comparing that with some of your previous e-books, I notice one obvious difference: there is no spine. A printed book needs the title on the spine, so that you can find the book when it is vertical on a bookshelf. The Amazon instructions I found suggested the cover designer would create a spine for you, but it hasn’t done so for this one. Maybe you need to configure the spine in some way before it will put the printed version on sale.”
I found this is true a lot of my books because most of my books are novella length. This one was only about 31,000 words I think altogether. When I write these in my text documents I usually use Times new Roman size 9 font but when I publish them I always end up increasing it to 12 point and then when it’s reformatted to fit inside of the book the page numbers always get more. Like I think this one came out to be 104 pages which is relatively slight, so the spine is not very large so the text would not fit on it.