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Alright, folks. I’ve mentioned before here that I’ve been considering re-designing the Cemetery Tours book covers. As y’all know, I absolutely love the designs created by my talented friend, Ben Durham.

However, the images on these covers are stock images. They are not ones that I own. Yes, I paid for the right to use them, but eventually, I would have to repay. I also couldn’t use the design for any sort of promotional products other than the covers themselves. I love these covers, but I believe I have the talent, experience, and resources available to design book covers using only my material. No stock covers. Everything about the books would be 100% mine.

That being said, if you really like the old cover designs and you really want a “first edition” copy with the original covers, order them now, because beginning October 6, only the new designs will be available.

http://www.amazon.com/Jacqueline-E.-Smith/e/B00F7BPXX6/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1

As for the designs themselves, I don’t really have a lot of experience when it comes to book covers. I did design the cover to Boy Band, but I wanted to make sure that the new covers for Cemetery Tours were as high quality as the originals.

I started out with something simple.

But clearly, I still had work to do.

The next designs were a bit more colorful.

But to me, they still looked too sloppy. I liked the colors in the second one, but somehow, it didn’t look professional. It looked like something I designed in photoshop class.

Eager to experiment with the color scheme, I continued on to the third design idea.

For a little while, I thought these might be the final cover designs. I liked them so much that I even designed a cover for the third book, After Death, to be released October 6.