So as I close in on the time when I'm going to publish George and the Dragon my thoughts turn to book covers and what I think would make a decent book cover.

The first thing I did was to have a good search around on-line to see what there was out there.

There's a whole industry that appears to thrive on selling pre-made book covers.  To me this seems like writing a novel to fit the cover rather than the reverse.  While I have a found a stock picture I would like to be used as the cover for Second Chance At Happiness I would still rather pay to have someone turn that into a bespoke cover than go to a website and trawl through their pre-made covers trying to find one that 'loosely' fits the book.



I mean seriously do you think the book covers for any of the most popular books you can think of were just picked from a random list of covers on some website because they were cheep.

Take Harry Potter for example not only are the covers all bespoke through each series of covers there are common features.  Especially the primary colour set at the top.


I have decided, I think as it's not set in stone, to use a company that offers to both help with the cover design and getting the book on Kindle and Smashwords.  For me this makes the most sense as it will neatly tie up the end process of getting the book out to the masses.