This was the first cover of Glitch, made before the first chapter was even written:

I made this cover after a brief talk with Alexis Keane (check out his fiction by clicking his name! It's a dungeon story!) about what makes a good cover. Although it is elegant and visually appealing, this cover did not quite fit what I was looking for. There was no hook for people to want to read. All I had was the symbol that now represents "Elizabeth x Edward", he is the Green Skull and she represents the purple flames. Without the purple flames, that is the symbol of the Glitching Circle / Clique / Gang "The Skulls'.

The second cover was then made after a discussion on Discord about what the original one needed. We decided on a title and borders.

I also added "Pat.e.ll", which is my name as an author. This cover lasted a month and I planned to make it official. It had all I was looking for.

However, it lacked waifus. That, for Vsolon, was a great problem.

The third cover is when things started getting too hard for me.

It looked way too cringy to be a front cover, but it had a great appeal as a miniature. I thought that maybe it could be used in the description as a hook for the readers to find a visual style to see what they read.

Yet I was not satisfied. I was cluttering an image that was never supposed to have that much going on.

And then ssddx came to do my job for me. To make this cover for you, we were up at 4 AM:

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And this is where we are right now. What do you guys think? Would the novel have worked with Cover 2 or 1?

Thank you guys for reading!