Choosing a Book Cover Journey

My problem in life is that I’ve decided to publish my novel in serial fashion. It will come in four novellas, possibly five. Novellas 1-3 are all going to be published in KDP as ebooks only. At around 50-75 pages each I don’t think I would want anyone buying those in physical book form. The final publishing phase will be a full-blown book both in eBook and paperback. The idea is to try building an audience as I write the whole thing. Also, it keeps me motivated. At this stage, only the Good Lord knows if it’s going to work or not. Regardless, I’ll never know if I don’t try, so, it is what it is.

Here are what I’m considering for a title for the first novella. These are all rough approximations, ai art, of what I was thinking. The first one, by claude ai, was to use the vampire coven’s sigil (Sangre Aquifer) which was supposed to look like a drop of water with blood red roots underneath. Instead it looks like someone just popped a party favor and I got confetti going up in the air. Even so, I think it wins the prize for cleanest look.

The second one is actually a scene from the book. The one I envisioned as the future book cover when I began writing it. The gentleman on the right will be murdering and drinking the other man’s blood shortly. Based out of Houston’s ship channel area, the refinery is supposed to be close the ocean. In my mind I had a ship passing by. One of the things I’ve found out while trying to make this image is that I’m absolutely miserable at prompting ai to do my bidding. So, with that in mind, I decided that this is good enough. At least to show anyone reading this, thank you, the general idea I was going with.

The third one was my last attempt. I went to gemini ai, and prompted that I was thinking about an old man losing his skin and a young man underneath it. That’s what I got. It’s somewhat promising, but not a great approximation.

So far I think the top left one, is probably the leading candidate. Choosing a cover is important, but I’m freaking tired of this process. Just started a line by line edit, just finished chapter one. Five more chapters to go. The plan is to have it published on KDP sometime in January. At the rate I’m going, probably late January. Thank you for reading this and take care.