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February 5, 2021 by in category Pink Pad by Tracy Reed tagged as , , ,
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This has been a challenging last couple of weeks. I don’t know where the time went. I’m going to keep this short. First, I want to thank Jann Ryan for the nice interview a couple of days ago. The timing is perfect. Her post summed up what I wanted to write about.

When Jann approached me about the interview, I was working on The Good Girl Part Trois. I was a little behind and didn’t finish it until a little later. Once I finished, a major problem occurred… an unexpected additional book in the series.

News of another book should be a good thing, and it is. But when you don’t have a cover, it becomes a problem.

When I wrote The Good Girl Part One, I quickly found a cover image I liked. While looking for a cover for The Good Girl Part Deux, I came up with this idea to use the other half of her face for book two. When placed side by side, you saw her entire face. Then another book happened. But I had a problem. I was writing another book and didn’t have a cover.

I tried not to panic at the thought of not having a cover. I figured it would all work itself out, because book four wasn’t coming out until summer. I forgot Jann was going to need the cover for her post. Oh crap! I was on borrowed time. My immediate response was to wait until I released book four and change the covers for the first three books in the series. I figured I’d do a special promotion centered around the new covers. I had a plan. I didn’t say it was a good one, but it was a plan. I knew what I needed to do… redesign the series.

I found a new set of images and created a new set of covers. The new covers were nice, but I could never get the skin tone right. I submitted the new covers to one of my Facebook groups for feedback. I implemented the changes, but I couldn’t get the skin coloring right. These new covers were quickly becoming too much work. I reached out to a couple of my author friends, and they gave me some very good feedback. One even sent me a photo suggestion. I used it to troll depositphotos.com searching for similar images. Within a few hours, I had images I liked, which could easily be tweaked.

This may not sound like a big deal for most authors, but it is for me. I haven’t committed to custom images yet, so I try to find images I can tweak to look like African Americans or AA images that haven’t been overused.

The new covers for The Good Girl Series are very contemporary, which I love. They change the entire feel of the series. As much as I didn’t want to change the covers, I knew it was for the better.

What do you think?

Old Covers – These were the first updates from 2018
  

New Covers

   
See you next month.


Books by Tracy Reed

THE GOOD GIRL PART ONE

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THE GOOD GIRL PART ONE

UNEXPECTED LOVE

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UNEXPECTED LOVE

GENERATIONAL CURSE

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GENERATIONAL CURSE

INTENTIONAL CURSE

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INTENTIONAL CURSE

DESPERATE DESIRE

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DESPERATE DESIRE

GIRLFRIENDS & SECRETS

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GIRLFRIENDS & SECRETS

WHAT MY FRIENDS DON’T KNOW

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WHAT MY FRIENDS DON’T KNOW

WHAT MY FRIENDS NEED TO KNOW

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WHAT MY FRIENDS NEED TO KNOW

THE GOOD GIRL PART DEUX

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THE GOOD GIRL PART DEUX

MISS MATCH

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MISS MATCH

A SOUTHERN GENTLEMAN

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A SOUTHERN GENTLEMAN

THE FIX UP

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THE FIX UP

THE FLING

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THE FLING

THE NIGHT I FELL IN LOVE

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THE NIGHT I FELL IN LOVE

FIRST ENCOUNTERS OF LOVE

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FIRST ENCOUNTERS OF LOVE

LOVE NOTES

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LOVE NOTES
GOD’S BOMBSHELL: LIVING A BEAUTIFUL SINGLE LIFE

THE GOOD GIRL Part Trois

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THE GOOD GIRL Part Trois

THE GOOD GIRL PART FIVE

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THE GOOD GIRL PART FIVE

THE GOOD GIRL PART FOUR

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THE GOOD GIRL PART FOUR

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