And the Winning Cover Is…

Thank you, Voters!

It was a close vote between #1 cover (blue) and #3 cover (yellow).

Some yellow cover voters said they wouldn’t consider reading the blue cover book…too scary, and made references to Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds.” Some blue cover voters said the yellow cover was too sappy, and looked like a book about fishing. They liked the blue cover because of the Detroit Zoo water tower on the back, and they liked it because it made them think of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds.”

Whew!

A few people liked both #1 and #3. I didn’t know which column to put them in, and didn’t want to get in trouble for voter fraud, so I just left them off the chart. Sorry.

One person suggested combining the type face of #1 with the background of #2 and changing the color to green. Oh man, that brought back nightmare memories of advertising clients!

What to do? How do you please everyone?

ANSWER. I decided to publish the book with two covers, especially since opinions were so strong. I checked with Amazon. Yes, it was okay to have two covers. However, I’d need separate ISBN numbers and bar codes. Since I already bought ten ISBN numbers for $275 when I published, Intentional, a novel, in 2014, I still had plenty (seven). I did have to buy a new bar code for $25.

Then yesterday I got an email from Amazon saying they had changed their policy. It was too confusing for their customers if a book with identical content had two different covers.

So pick one?

Okay, so based on the votes #1 is the winner. Here’s how the votes went (note: I like making charts).

	Cover #1	Cover #2	Cover #3
1	Ann Amenta	Mary Epstein	Lee Burnham
2	Bonnie Schoettle	Dawn Taube	Mary Cay Deizt
3	Keith Brown	Barbara Woolf	Margarete Koenen
4	Nancy Massa	Laura Whitesides Host	Joy Powell
5	Judith Berk	Kathy Compton	Janette Andrews
6	Laura Lee	Isabell Bastien	Mary Roberts
7	Bill Jackson	Susan Kramer	Barbara Aylward
8	Katie Bogner	Carol Ann Arvan	Katie O Bogner
9	Susan Arnold		Kim McLott
10	Lisa Crawford		Alison Rule
11	Theresa Rollins		Rosemary Sexton
12	Joanne Copeland		Treena Flannery Ericson
13	Lynne Ford		Alison Ruble
14	Chuck Taube		Annis Pratt
15	Mary Haddad		Sharon Weisswasser
16	Bob Piatek		Tom Kerwin
17	Gregory Szaichler		Ann Landen
18	Cyndi Chouinard		Jim Schoettle
19	Loretta Markell		Sal Fetter
20	Debra Friedman		Joy Row
21	Sue Schoettle		Dolores S. Slowinski
22	Christina Hill		Nancy Arnfield
23	Harah Frost		Todd Erickson
24	Theresa Rollins		Terry Jobe
25	Skip Davis		Ricky Winn
26	Ann Throop		Sharon Lowe
27	Colette Dywasuk		Kathy Holmer
28	Linda Mendelson		Carolee Perring
29	John Bogner		Carol Magee Medford
30	Betty Brownlee		Gary Gilbert
31	Laura Godfrey		Kay Rittinger
32	Deena Morguloff-Kachafoorian		Sharon Cleveland Nelson
33	Linda Parker		Veronica Deisler
34	Eileen Aboulafia		Carol Winslow
35	Rose Slover		Judy Amir
36	Fred Foley		Brenda McDonald
37	Carol Lee		Karen Tulin Schreck
38	Susan Helton
39	Robert Stewart
40	Carol Fowler Pastrick
41	Samuel Keith Hays
42	Gale Cunningham
43	Grace Rising

Hopefully, the book will be available by October 2, 2017 on Amazon, Kindle and iBooks.

I really do appreciate learning what you like. Thank you for voting.

And yellow cover voters…It’s really not scary. Will you consider reading it with its blue cover?