Hi friends,
Changing the Breaking Series wasn’t an easy decision. I thought about it for months. But in the end, I guess it’s hard not to change it, and here is why:
I love, love, love the current covers of Breaking the Reins and Breaking Fences, but unfortunately they are are sending the wrong message to the readers. The Breaking Series as it is attracts more horse-book readers, and even though there are horses and ranches in the books, I still think the books are more New Adult Romances than anything else. Nothing wrong with horse-books readers – gosh, thank goodness they have been reading my books – but it’s not the intended market. So, I researched New Adult Romances covers (as if I needed) and guess what? Most of them have kissing couples or shirtless guys on the cover! What a shocker ;)
Everyone I talked to about changing covers and the reason why, agreed with me. So I contacted the wonderful Naj, who designed the cover of Captured Love, and she worked on the new covers.
However, I realized just changing the covers wasn’t enough. The titles didn’t go well with the new pics we chose. Can you imagine Breaking the Reins or Breaking Fences written across kissing couples? It doesn’t make much sense now, does it? So I ended up changing titles too.
Breaking the Reins is now called Breaking Free.
Breaking Fences is now called Breaking Away.
And book #3, which didn’t have a title until now, is called Breaking Through.
Of course, Naj did a great job. The new covers are beautiful! Can’t wait to show you! Which brings me to the next thing: I contacted Giselle from Xpresso Book Tours and she’s organizing a big cover re-reveal for the old books and a cover reveal for the new book (all together in one post) for Dec 19th. If you want to help me spread the word about the new covers and titles, you can sign up here.
I know it’s a little confusing for now, but it’ll clear up with time :)
Cheers,
Alex J. Cavanaugh
You definitely want to attract the right audience. Can’t wait to see the new covers!