Cover Dilemmas

Cover Dilemmas

I am currently working on my next novelette. It's called The Little Regency Book Shop. I wanted to design a cover which might appeal to a wider audience - perhaps someone who hadn't tried a Regency setting before. I played around with a few different ideas that were closer to modern chick lit and holiday reading styles . Here's a sneak peek of what I ended up with for The Little Regency Book Shop!

I liked the new cover style so much that it made me question all the previous covers I had designed. These contrasting design concepts are churning around in my head so much that it's making me dizzy!

I would greatly appreciate your thoughts on these two pairs of covers. Which do you like best? Which are you more likely to download?

Thank you for your replies! The vote was overwhelmingly in favour of the new style covers, so I have updated them all, and by the time you check, they should be live on Amazon!