Same Cover... Different Books

Hi readers,

What do you think about two or several authors with the same book title? I love it, because authors are geniuses and can create completely different stories with same title.

Now how about book covers? It’s not an issue, but it doesn’t excite me like similar book titles.

So I was searching for books with a similar title to my short story “Finding Love” for book cover inspiration, then I came across the below by Sharon Cummin. I was surprised because I knew that I had seen the cover before.

It's the same cover image and font colours as "Don’t Call Me Baby" by Betty Byers. It was a book I read in 2014 (see review HERE); an amazing book and cover.

In fact, I was so in love with the book then that I thought the author may be paid a model that looks like her lead male character to take the picture, lol. I loved the cover and the story, and it was one of my best fun reads of the year.

Seeing the second book cover just reminded me that I have to not only be creative with my covers, but also never use photos of random people online, whether stock-free or not.

They are being sold to anyone, so chances are that a lot of covers or ads or flyers would have the same look. After promising myself never to use book cover templates, I went ahead and used one from Canva. I never go to Canva for templates, but the first time I did, I saw 50% of the book cover templates from authors on Okadabooks, and it got me worried. I've put up a couple of them here. "Cheat" is a romance novel and "Malice and the god of many faces" is supernatural. I wonder why the use of a lobster as the cover image. That's a lobster, right?

Some of the storylines/genres of two authors using the same book cover template are different, so I wonder why they use the same style for the cover. Could it be that they just want something nice for the cover to attract readers, or do the covers actually relate to the story? I don't know.

The cover template I took from Canva is for my upcoming book titled "Like Never Before," and I’m sure that more than 100 other people have access to it, but the cover was so lovely and was perfect for the genre and storyline. I changed the font style at least, but never again.

Generally, I do get images or objects online, but I manipulate and use them to create something different, just to be unique. I saw a few other books with similar cover, and then the highlight of them all, as below: