By the Bay Series Has New Covers!

Happy 2020!

I’m excited to announce that the By the Bay romantic comedies now have new covers.

I’ll admit it hadn’t been my original plan to create covers for the books. I was only going to make them for the Love Undercover series (and all future romance books). I took two cover-design courses last year with photographer/cover designer Regina Wamba, so it made sense for me to create the covers from here on in.

Plus, I hadn’t planned to write any more By the Bay stories.

But you guys asked for more.

The next novel in the series will be released January 2021, but in the meantime, I had to figure out what to do about the covers for future books. Regina told the class that we needed to get permission from our designers if we wanted to keep using the same branding.

And that was precisely what I had planned to do…until I saw Monica Murphy's covers for her new series. I LOVE covers with bright colors. They’re so cheerful and perfect for romantic comedies.

I played around with a cover idea I had that was nothing like Monica's covers. Okay, I’ll admit it. I was procrastinating on something, which is why I was playing around with the covers well ahead of schedule.

I tested the old and the new Decidedly Off Limits covers with Facebook ads, and discovered that readers much preferred the new version compared to the old one.

So that’s the story behind why I rebranded the covers. I hope you like them as much as I enjoyed making them!