After leaning that my video advertisement for For Sissy was too violent for Facebook, I made some quick changes so that the ad showed only the book cover, and not my embellishments of a bloody knife, et al.  In hindsight, I could see why FB wouldn’t want to show the implied violence of my original ad, decided I was showing my usual poor judgement and moved on.

Much to my surprise, Amazon one-upped Facebook by refusing to run my BOOK COVER in a sponsored advertisement.  At the same time, Kobo rejected my request to participate in a promo, but without comment.  I suspected the cover might have been to blame.

The cover, by the way, showed a beheaded fashion doll with duct tape over its mouth, lying in the snow next to its dismembered plastic body. Behind it was a full-sized “dead” human hand with orange nail polish, which most people never noticed.  This image was edited to have a cartoonish effect and harkened not only to the story itself, but to a stunt performed by BTK/Dennis Rader, a notorious serial killer, who once left a bound plastic doll in a package to get attention and taunt the police. Dennis Rader was a narcissistic jerk, and the serial killer in my book is also a narcissist who thinks he’s clever.

Anyway, my cover does sound kind of gruesome, in context and described this way.

Anyway, the commercial world was telling me that my cover was a no-go, so I frantically — er, quickly — swapped it out for a completely different look.  Now the cover is mainly red and black, showing a glaring man who does look quite scary. The cover still has the slashy white lines that link it with its predecessor, The Crandall Haunting.

So, with no further ado, HERE is the REAL cover reveal of my new release, For Sissy, and you can click it to buy it!