"I had absolutely loved my cover for Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour [read that Cover Story here]. I wasn’t worried about how the cover for the second book would turn out. I was still in the midst of writing the first draft of the book when my editor asked me what I had been thinking about for the cover.
"I mentioned that since the book takes place in a summer lake community, with a dock being a very important part of the story, maybe there could be a dock featured somewhere. An initial idea I’d had was two sets of bare feet on a dock, or hanging over the edge and skimming the water. And then I basically just gave her vague, summer-conjuring words – pine trees! Mountains! Lake!
"By the time I saw the first cover proof, we’d actually been going back and forth a lot on the title. I tend to pick long, not-particularly-evocative-titles, and then cling to them stupidly...."
Read the rest of Morgan's Cover Story at melissacwalker.com.
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