The many different covers of DEMONSOULED

As SOUL OF SWORDS will be coming out sometime in the first week of June, let us take a look back at the many different covers that DEMONSOULED has had throughout the years.

Jill Bauman did the first cover for the hardback edition that came out back in 2005. There are still a few copies floating around Amazon.

After the hardcover version went out of print, the ebook version came out in 2011. This was the first cover, a classic (and public domain!) painting by John William Waterhouse:

Obviously this did not send the right message for the content of the book. After I finished SOUL OF SERPENTS and made DEMONSOULED into a free ebook, I switch to this cover, a painting by Russian artist Viktor Vasnetsov:

This cover, you’ll agree, looked much better. But public domain classic artwork will only take you so far, so in 2012, I upgraded to stock photos for the new cover:

However, as the previous three covers demonstrate, I am a writer, not a graphic designer. I decided to redo all the DEMONSOULED covers for the release of SOUL OF SWORDS, and hired Clarissa Yeo to make the new covers:

Five covers in eight years. Not many books can boast of that! 🙂

-JM