Thank you everyone for your comments last week! I loved reading what you thought of the covers, and I feel even more fortunate now to have two very different packages for my novel.

When Mia and I were first imagining cover designs, we both thought about the more uplifting elements of the novel. Hold Still has a tragic premise and many difficult moments, but ultimately, at least to me, it's about hope. My thought was that people would gravitate more to the book if the cover showed, in some...