Take her off the cover entirely, would have been my suggestion, and just leave the background.
This was a suggestion I made that was vetoed.
You may get a new set of readers this way, but very few will care about the writing, most will probably hate the ending, and the majority aren't likely to look for more of your work.
And that's what worries me most. Well, one thing that worries me most, how there seems to be very little forethought in this marketing.
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Date: 2009-08-17 05:02 pm (UTC)My 20-year-old son would never touch this.
Which is very, very bad.
Take her off the cover entirely, would have been my suggestion, and just leave the background.
This was a suggestion I made that was vetoed.
You may get a new set of readers this way, but very few will care about the writing, most will probably hate the ending, and the majority aren't likely to look for more of your work.
And that's what worries me most. Well, one thing that worries me most, how there seems to be very little forethought in this marketing.