Linda Acaster is revealing a new cover for her stand-alone short,
Scent of the Böggel-Mann.
The blurb has been updated, too:
Some lots are best left in the auction room.
Elaine
haunts auctions held in crumbling country mansions, dreaming of a find
to make her and Gary rich. A plain wooden shipping trunk has no key to
its iron-banded locks but is far heavier than it should be. What might
it contain?
Some lots are best left in the auction room.
Mainstream
publishers regularly change the covers of their titles: to re-brand the
author, or a series, or to edge a title further into its genre
‘look’.
Scent of the Böggel-Mann is aligned with the
Horror genre, something readers should pick up in a single glance. It could hardly be Chicklit, could it? And it would make a very odd cover for a Crime/Mystery novel.
This is how covers
work. They act as fast tags to the type of story to be found within. With a book cover, 'a
picture paints a thousand words' has never been more true.
The title is on wide distribution at an entry level price of 99p/99c, available from
Kindle,
Kobo,
iBooks,
Nook, and
Smashwords for all formats.
