By now I’m sure you’ve all seen the excellent cover put together by three of my readers. Jerry, Mike, and John helped put this bad boy together:
Now, that’s an awesome print wrap and a wonderful wallpaper, but look what happens when I chop the front off for the ebook cover:
The shape of the silo disappears! On the print edition, I think this’ll work okay, because it continues across the spine and onto the back. However, when scaled down to Amazon thumbnail size, I worried about the legibility and aesthetic of this piece. It also felt like the title began to disappear. So here’s a slight modification:
Better? Worse? Lemme know.
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