Here’s another version of the cover for my novel, The Host. I got some feedback from my first version about the coloring on the tick being unnecessary. In thinking about it, I decided to go with a different graphic of the tick altogether.
I also posterized the moon a little so it fit in with the effects on the neck and the tick. What do you think?

Yesterday I posted the first chapter of “The Host,” and I received a little bit of feedback mostly from Twitter, so thank you. Though my claim that I was done fiddling with it is easier said than done.
But, aside from having to polish what is now my third draft into a final edit, self publishing means I have to come up with a cover, too. Well, I’ve been working on it.
So far, only the front cover is done, and I’d love feedback. Here are a couple of things I did. …