Unfortunately, I think this might be true.

Wouldn’t you prefer your hard-worked-on novel to stand out on the shelves in a book store or would you want it to be almost invisible amongst all the the other titles?

Not only that but you’d want to the cover to be intriguing enough for someone to pick it up and read the blurb at the back. And from there wander over to the cashier.

So that would mean you’d want 2 things in a book cover:

It would be the same even if the book is sold online: you’d want someone to click on the title to find out more and add it to the cart.

So when the good people at Penguin SEA came up with 2 options for my novel Vermillion Eyes : 25th Anniversary Edition, I really had to think.

Which cover would you say is both eye-catching and intriguing?