Chateau Lloyd

One of the toughest things about self-publishing for me is coming up withe cover art.  Sure, Amazon offers a variety of generic book  covers for use, but I want something a little more personalized.

The first book I published - Conqueror: Fields of Victory - originally used a photo I took of a coronet and sword.  It looked like the cover for a romance novel and upon reflection I went with a modified photo of a knight in armor.  It isn't high art, but it works.

Battle Officer Wolf benefited from this experience as well as the input of my lovely wife.  I used a montage of two public domain photos, tinted them to match the mood of the book and added them into an existing stock template.

Scorpion's Pass used a similar approach, though this time the photo was done in-house and then modified to fit the template.

So what about A Man of Destiny?  How best to encapsulate a sprawling three-volume epic of war, adventure and intrigue?

I wish I knew.