šØ Draft Two, 5-Star Puzzles & The Big Kindle+ Shift
By D.C. Salmon ⏱️ Reading Time: 5 minutes In this post: The struggle with Book 3's cover concepts, bizarre reviews, the B-format waiting game, and what Amazon’s rebrand from Kindle Unlimited to Kindle+ actually means. As I sit down at my keyboard to write this post, it is Tuesday, 27 October. And yes, full disclosure: yesterday was the first time I actually put pen to paper (or fingers to keys) for this week’s update! I suppose the best place to start is with the past week’s main event: the cover for Book 3, An Atlantic Shadow . Last Wednesday, Peter over at Bespoke Book Covers sent across the very first concept draft. Now, with the first two books ( An Irish Mystery and An American Treasure ), there really wasn’t much toing and froing. Peter’s initial designs hit the bullseye almost immediately; all we tweaked back then were small, cosmetic details. This time around, however, it just didn’t hit the spot. I sat with it for a while. I showed my wife. But ...
