Is it bad to frequently change the cover of your works?

[Tarrow]

Just something I was curious about. Do you usually stick to one cover for the whole of your story run, or are you as indecisive as me and change it every week or two?

I imagine the only real threat is story recognisability on the home page, was wondering what other people's thoughts on it were.

 

[Envylope]

Nope, I change them at will whenever I feel like it.

 

[tiaf]

Whatever is the most befitting of the current plot.

 

[Xanderx]

Na ive changed my cover like three times, mostly to fit scribble hub’s preferences if I dare say so myself.
My Story: The Duke’s Pirate

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Depends on why and how frequently. Digital Cowboy (sadly no longer here) has had three covers (two AI generated - with the title Digital Cowboy Dane - by Pocket FM, the other cobbled together in Paint Shop Pro using "copyright free stock images" and Windows fonts; also had a decent one someone cobbled together and sent me unsolicited that was never used because it came through about a week before I was asked to pull it from this site).
Between Worlds (also no longer here) had four (one generated by AI and edited in Paint Shop Pro for it here, and then, as Between Earth and Pyrroth, one really bad one generated by Pocket FM, one updated one for its initial release, and a revised one that is actually pretty good now for when the contract went out).
Strange Awakening had ... well, three rejected before the current one, plus the site-generated placeholder. Not sure if that counts.
I think I changed Blood Diamond's cover once after posting, but Diamond in the Rough and my other stories all have the original ones I threw together.

 

[AliceMoonvale]

I could see it being a problem if the covers were like, drastic changes from the original, to where people are wondering: is this the same novel?
But yeah, if it's just every once in a great while, should be fine.
I only changed my own once, because my new cover was an improvement~

 

[Eldoria]

Just something I was curious about. Do you usually stick to one cover for the whole of your story run, or are you as indecisive as me and change it every week or two?

I imagine the only real threat is story recognisability on the home page, was wondering what other people's thoughts on it were.

Well, covers are a secret weapon for attracting new readers. Only change your cover if you feel your fiction isn't selling well! Conversely, don't take down a cover that's proven to sell well.

 

[LostRain]

I just changed mine for the first time in, like, two years. From what it looks like, though, it’s all pretty much up to you. On Royal Road its a tactic to change covers quite a bit to bring in new readers who might’ve otherwise passed up on your book purely based on the initial cover. Not sure how that translates over here.

 

[Eldoria]

I just changed mine for the first time in, like, two years. From what it looks like, though, it’s all pretty much up to you. On Royal Road its a tactic to change covers quite a bit to bring in new readers who might’ve otherwise passed up on your book purely based on the initial cover. Not sure how that translates over here.

Here, changing the cover takes a few hours to a day to approve. Well, that's not bad. I've seen other sites take up to months just to change the cover.

 

[LostRain]

Here, changing the cover takes a few hours to a day to approve. Well, that's not bad. I've seen other sites take up to months just to change the cover.

Yeah, I saw that. The first change took a while, and then the second change because I messed up hair color only took, like, an hour tops.

 

[L1aei]

I'm only concerned about when updating the cover images reintroduces that invisibility on the entire novel again. No idea what that bug was all about, but had to deal with that a couple of times; reupload the whole story just to get it to show up in the search.