Blurbs & Book Covers

I agree, the first two paragraphs are great, the third is just slightly less interesting. However, I don’t really have too much feedback for it.

"As the storms battering the coast of Navarón and the waters surrounding Alintera worsen"  This is a good beginning of a sentence, however I feel like it lacks--I don't know if this is the right word, but--tangibility. Like perhaps instead you could do "As storms batter the coast of Navarón and the waters surrounding Alintera grow restless" (and that doesn't sound particularly original, but I think you get the point.) Something to immerse the reader in the setting.

The only other thing that I thought you could play around with was starting your last sentence with an ‘And.’ I don’t think it’s necessary, but you may want to experiment with it. The reason I brought it up is because when you put an ‘and’ somewhere it’s kind of like saying, “We have to do this, this, and this. Look at all the things we have to do in order to save the world.”

That’s all for now!

~Sofia

P.S. I love Azul's name!!!! Nerida's too, but you know.

Hi Nae!

So, I know that I'm kind of late to this, but oh well. Life happens. First off, I wanted to say that I love the title. I definitely think that that it's a great name and it would be hard to think of another one that would be better. But, if you do end up changing it, just keep in mind that "allure of the seas" is the name of a cruise ship by royal carribean... which probably isn't the vibe you're going for. Now, for the cover though, I feel like it could be better. I do like the ocean aspect, but I feel like for a mermaid romance, it needs something more, you know? Maybe some more sea life under the water, or even a little mermaid in the distance? Or perhaps a glimpse of the mermaid village (I don't know if they have a village, but you know, wherever they live). And I know it's difficult because you're just building covers on canva, but I figured that my feedback might be helpful anyway! Anyway, hope this helps, and good luck!

I love the blurb and the cover, but I do have a couple of suggestions. For the cover, I feel like the rose is a little hard to see at first glance--which is great if it's what your going for, but if not than maybe 'lifting' the rose a bit could help? Like adding some shadow behind it, kinda? I think there's an effect that you can apply to text and elements on Canva that does it for you. (don't know if that actually makes sense...) I love that you used Cinzel (or is it Cinzel Decorative? Sometimes it's hard to tell), totally one of my favorite fonts, but I found that the left side of Fiendish was a little hard to read, probably just because the background changes a lot on that side of the word. I don't know if maybe lifting that too could help? (Again, I don't know if this is... actually beneficial advice, but...)

For the blurb, there was only one thing I found confusing: Why is the feline creature potentially going to loose his deteriorating humanity? Why is it deteriorating?

And that's about it from me.

First of all, great blurb! Second, is Wildfowl a pen name or are some people graced with wildly interesting surnames??

As for the covers, I do agree that the handwriting makes it look sort of romance-y, but I think that if you just change the handwriting font it could still work. And the neat font doesn't do anything for the vibe, so I'd say change that to perhaps handwriting? Maybe? On Google Docs the font 'Kalam' might work, (my favorite handwriting font, but to each her own) and you could of course do some exploring on your own. I'd say whatever you do steer clear of cursive, because that would give a romanic feel.

Hope this helps and happy writing!