Whiskey Witches Ancients Gets New Book Covers

Ever since I re-did the covers for Whiskey Witches Origins, I’ve wanted to recover the rest of the series. It took me a long while to determine what I wanted to do with these covers, however.

Well, while a fugue state of sickness, I couldn’t write anything good, so I worked on book covers instead. What do you think?

There were a lot of things I loved about the original covers, things that a lot of people didn’t like.

Daz characters

Do you see how cartoony the characters are on the original covers? I had been searching for models I could use on the covers, but I was really struggling. The models who had good expressions were too young, or there weren’t enough pictures of them, or there a bunch of photos with stupid expressions.

Look, I’m not a real artist, and I couldn’t hire a real artist. Have I in the past with other books? Yes. Did I do that with this series that had 21 book series? No! That’s $12K in covers and this series just doesn’t make that.

So, when I discovered Daz, Shane and I went wild and had a lot of fun with it. Toward the end - well, by the time I did the new Origin covers - Daz models were getting pretty decent, and we’d invested in a much higher caliber computer that could handle the renders.

This isn’t AI. People create the models that we can then alter, manipulate, pose, and then shoot in many dynamic poses, which is what I absolutely loved.

Use of AI In New Covers

I do use AI in my marketing. It’s just super easy and I love it.

For my covers, I went to stock sites and pulled images from there and manipulated them. However, there is a lot of AI on the stock sites.

So, with that in mind, I did use Midjourney to create some of the elements for the new covers, but these covers are still mostly just photo manipulation plus a little painting. I’m not a true artist.

New Covers Rolling Out This Week

There are a lot of steps when you reform 21 books, so it’s going to take all week for me to get these new covers into all the stores.

Be on the lookout and I hope you enjoy them!