Heidi Sinclair asked Richard Gradner:

I’ve noticed that you recently changed the front covers of all three your novels. Having read and enjoyed all three the books, I thought that there was now quite alot of emotional resonance through characters that are now on the covers. What was your reasoning behind the change in the book covers?

Richard Gradner Book covers are very difficult to get right. As an author, you want your book cover to portray as much of your story as possible to the reader. It needs to be enticing enough to grab someone’s attention. I think that most authors and distributors alike change covers often because they feel that they need to communicate the premise better each time to their reader base. Also people get used to seeing one cover so when they are presented with a new version of the cover, they feel more enticed to purchase the book than before.

In the fantasy genre, most of the covers have a very similar look and feel. A character on the cover definitely makes the book more enticing. Even the font of the title plays a big part in communicating in the right way to the right market.

I chose these 3 heroines for my book covers so as to keep the overall look and feel consistent, which also adds to their appeal. Each heroine represents a character in each story.

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