Sheepish Cover!

It's always exciting when the publisher sends you the first crack at your book's cover.  You don't know what it's going to look like until it appears in your inbox. 

I usually fuss quite a bit, and have way more suggestions for change than the publisher wants to hear. So when my editor sent me the cover for Sheepish, she nearly choked on her Starbucks when I emailed back that I loved it. "It's great!" I email-screamed.

Then there was a delay in the book's release date (my fault, not the publisher's.) When it came time to get serious about the cover again, they sent me a new version. I didn't like it. I found it blah. I lay my head on my keyboard, in mourning for the first version, then I sat up and let my fingers do the talking. I worked hard to convince both my editor and the art director that the first version had SPUNK! PIZAZZ! COOLNESS!


To make a long story short, they agreed with me, and we returned to the original design. Here's my new GREAT cover: