Category - New Covers For Old

With twenty-five, you get eggroll! Or something.

• Solitude: Portraits of the Lonely (original here)
• No Honor in Death (original here)
• Brulant la Poesie: Scorching Poetry (original here)
• The Tales of Valisa: The Tamiran Elves Legacy #1 The Rebellious Princess (original here)
• Born Dead (original here)
• Mail Order Bride: Westward Winds (original here)
• Passionate Retribution (original here)
• The Rejected Mail Order Bride (original here)
• The Photographer’s Apprentice (original here)
• Hunting Mariah (original here)
• Elysium (original here)
• His Doctor In Training (original here)
• Confide (original here)
• The Colony on Callisto (original here)
• The Last Omen: Possessed (original here)
• Apocalypse in the Balance (original here)
• Children of Prophecy (original here)
• The Tyrant (original here)
• CIA PROJECT: AMAZON: Book One: Bellona (THE ARUYAMAN SCROLLS 1), with a thankfully shortened title (original here)
• Eve Tesla: Final Extinction (Under a Trillion Suns Book 1), with a revised title (original here)

Some people… they do not learn. More tomorrow!

So much effort has gone into these… (Except, of course, the ones that show evidence of no effort at all.)

• Victim of Circumstance (original here)
• Mattie’s Compass (original here)
• Strangers (original here)
• Fore Shadows: Escape 2169 (original here)
• Numerology in a little bit different way – The Book about Numbers and Energies, with a revised title (original here)
• Under My Thumb (original here)
• Justifiable Homicide (original here)
• Dangerous Habits (original here)
• The Chef at the Water’s Edge (original here)
• The Pygmy Dragon (original here)
• Premonitions: Dream Catcher Series ~ Book One (original here)
• Onyx and Jasper – the Rock Hounds (original here)
• Tykocin (original here)
• He Who Dares (original here)
• Rockin’ into Romance (original here)
• The Griever’s Mark (original here)
• Shades of Molly (original here)
• The Loss (original here)
• The Magic of Jhas (original here)
• The Druid Wars: Kidnapping (original here)

More tomorrow? You betcha!

Keep going, indie publishers! You’ll hit on a good cover sooner or later!

• Altered World: A Girl Named Trouble (original here)
• Revelations on how ‘not’ to run a Supermarket (original here)
• Rascals Sing at the Opera House (original here)
• Jingle All the Way Home: A Collection of Winter Time Treat Recipes (original here)
• Spider Lady (original here)
• Second Chance (Chalice Back Story #2) (original here)
• In Search of Paradise (original here)
• Tangle Root (original here)
• The Rocky Terrain of Life – Boxed Set (original here)
• Born in Shadow (original here)
• The 1955 Auburn Tigers (original here)
• Emerging New World Power, with a revised title (original here)
• Who We Are (original here)
• A Dangerous Way (original here)
• Wolves Within (original here)
• World Tour 2100 (original here)
• Peace in the Midst of My Storms (original here)
• Skymerge (original here)
• Scow Truck, Episode-2; WithTwo You Get Eggroll (original here)
• Lazar’s Nemesis (original here)

There are a couple in this batch that have made themselves worse, not better. I’ll let you discover which ones.

In case you’re wondering, “How long is Nathan going to keep this up?”…  I’ve decided to make it a full 30 days presenting revised covers.  There are more than that (it sometimes seems like an infinite number), but I’m going to save them for another series of posts sometime in the future.

• Destiny Revealed (original here)
• The Hirelings (original here)
• Shadows Fall (original here)
• It’s On Us (original here)
• Armchair Detective: ‘The Pilot’ (original here)
• Honor Bound – Awakenings and Sacrifices: Book One and Two Together in One Volume (original here)
• Poison’s Kiss (original here)
• Bohemian Ghosts (original here)
• Donovan’s Gauntlet (original here)
• The Witch’s Vampire (original here)
• Concealed Leverage, with a new title (original here)
• Drowned Murmurs, with a new title (original here)
• Tracing the Contours, with a new title (original here)
• Conquered Shores (original here)
• The Trouble With Bruce (original here)
• November Jones (original here)
• Body Wave (A Text-A-Nurse Mystery 1) (original here)
• Wild Blood (original here)
• Deep Trouble (original here)
• Three Heads: The Final Cut, with a revised title (original here)

There are a couple of truly impressive replacements here… but only a couple.

More hits, more misfire, more tragic near-misses!

• Ascent of the Unwanted (original here)
• Utopian Hell, with a new title (original here)
• Mysterious Things in the Woods (original here)
• The Darkslayer: Blades in the Night (original here)
• Calizona: This ain’t yer Daddy’s apocalypse (original here)
• The Monk’s Jewel, with a new title (original here)
• Welcome to Singles Night! (original here)
• Dancing Bear (original here)
• Once Upon a Chess Game, with a revised title (original here)
• Miss Redmond’s Folly (original here)
• Storm on the Horizon (original here)
• Taken (original here)
• Where We Stand, with a new title (original here)
• Decisions, Decisions (original here)
• Under a Bourbon Street Moon: Vampyr (original here)
• The Imposter (original here)
• Look Away Silence (original here)
• Seraphympire: Guardians of the Gateways (original here) – this one went through a couple of drafts at CoverCritics.com before the new cover appeared
• The Mystery of Moutai (original here)
• Acadia’s Law (original here)

There’s at least one in here that is so much worse now…

It’s good to see people strive for excellence. Even if they sometimes haven’t got an idea of what excellence looks like.

• The Gift of Knowledge (original here)
• Code Prodigal (original here)
• In a Pinch (original here)
• The Time/Transport Bubble: Cult of the Devil Worshipers (original here)
• Love and Legend (original here)
• Rumpled (original here)
• My Haunted Apartment (original here)
• Sword Striker (original here)
• A Melody For James (original here)
• A Book to Die For (original here)
• Melanie’s Evanescent Journey (original here)
• What’s Sooner to You is Later For Me (original here)
• The Promise of Forever (original here) — this one prompted a tedious waaah you’re all bullies response, so I’m glad the criticism finally sunk in
• Route Number 11 (original here)
• Jazz Baby (original here)
• Wrath of Michael (original here)
• A Rat For a Rat (original here)
• The Eyes of Tokorel: The Taste of Emotion (original here)
• Viking Warrior (original here)
• Twisted City (original here)

More tomorrow!

Presenting some people who’ve learned their lesson, and some who’ve learned… not as much as we’d hoped.

• Boucher’s World: Encounters (original here)
• Jadon the Sea Bound Ohnyx (original here)
• Looking For Lucky (original here) (this is one that showed both original and new’n’improved flavors)
• Passion and Ponies (original here)
• Missing, Assumed Dead (original here)
• The Devil’s Claw (original here)
• Into the Mill – A Judas to all Men (original here)
• Girl in Two Worlds (original here)
• New Olympus: The Armageddon Girl Companion (original here)
• Dog Briar (original here)
• The Druid Healer of Tone (original here)
• Blood Curse (original here)
• Nobility (original here)
• Phantom Memories (original here)
• Moscow Dreams (original here)
• The 10th Cycle (original here)
• The Goat Parva Murders (original here)
• Anya’s Story (original here)
• The House of War (original here)
• The List of Five: A Beginning (original here)

Well, there you have it. And then some.

I hope I’m not boring you with these. Give credit where credit is due, after all.

• The Page: The Year of the Dragons (original here)
• Dream Reunion (original here)
• Dragon (original here)
• Gills (original here)
• Bad News From Outer Space (original here)
• Never Buy a Condo and Other Things I Have Learned from the Practice of Law (original here)
• The Voynich Deception (original here)
• Mind’s Eye (original here)
• The Shelf (original here)
• Charged (original here)
• The Lyon Trilogy (original here)
• Murder, Lies & Chocolate (original here)
• Snowed Inn (original here)
• The Bazaar (original here)
• Land of Demons: The Proto-Colonization of Ezochi, an Alternate Model of Japanese Expansion (original here)
• Snorts and Wobbles (original here)
• Call of the Wolf (original here)
• Twitter Super-Charged (original here)
• False Flags (original here)
• Over My Dead Body (original here)

Lotta lateral moves in this bunch. Oh, well.