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The pitfalls of creating the right cover.

After much thought, I made the decision that new covers were required for the Foxblood series.

I hired a wonderfully talented artist, and together, we began searching all the stock photo sites, along with Deviantart, for an appropriate model to represent my main character.
After a few mind-numbing days, we found one. Great! She was perfect, and even better, my cover artist knew her. There were dozens of different poses, so we picked our favourites and contacted her. She was quick to respond. Great again! But unfortunately, she informed us that the particular poses we were interested in were already licensed. No matter, we thought, we’ll just pick different ones. So, we did. And we contacted her again. Could we get her to reply? No. Messages were left for her on Deviantart, facebook, twitter, and by direct email. It was really frustrating to see that she was on various sites, posting random things, and yet totally ignoring us. After an extremely stressful month, we had to face the fact that it was back to the drawing board. And so began two more weeks of eye blurring photo staring. I was beginning to think that we’d never get there.
Then, a couple of days ago, my artist contacted me to say that she’d been speaking to a photographer friend and he may have something for us. The relief I felt, when she sent through a huge portfolio of a perfect model in various poses, was indescribable.
We may finally be able to get started on the covers!

So, my message to all the photographers and models out there is this: If you state that your work is available for licence, PLEASE have the courtesy to answer your emails!
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Published on December 09, 2012 08:22 Tags: book-cover, models, stock-photos