Sharing new cover!

I think it looks great!

Being picky: "Watch" needs some serious kerning. Weird that it sprawled out like that, when "Suicide" is fine.

But otherwise, it works for me. I'd nudge your name up from the bottom a little, so it matches the margin at the top.

Margins! Margins margins margins.

Move the photo down, roughly centered horizontally. Shrink it if you don't want the text to overlap at all.

Move the blurb down and the title/byline up.

Is that streaky hazy white stuff in the original photo? I'd lower the opacity on that. It's distracting.

Not a fan of the small caps on your name. Just straight caps would look sleeker, imo.

And yes, adjust the kerning in "Watch," as LBlankenship suggested.

leahzero said:

Margins! Margins margins margins.

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QFT

Great concept and execution, doubling on the margins line....

Personally I'd still move the author name up a bit more. The top text is traditionally to the edge in most books because it's not that important, but an author name is not and should look structured which means not letting it be eaten by the margin. Move it up just a bit more.

I agree with what the other posters said about spacing, but I like the idea. Good luck with it.

I have to confess that at first glance I thought the image was an "Invisible Man"-type picture - it took a whole to realize the head was bowed vs. being a jacket without a visible head, especially with no seat visible. Can I ask what you're trying to portray?

I would shorten the neck just a smidge, and possibly, shrink that do some--the head seems very big.

Otherwise nice imagery.