Everyone Picked the Cover I Didn't Want (And They Were Right)

Three days. That's how long it took Vivian Lee-Lauss to draw the emblem for a seven-book series — with no design background, no idea how to use the software, and no ability to draw.Then she spent a week making the real cover. The proper one. The one she was proud of.Everyone saw something she didn't draw. Everyone picked the one she didn't want.Fourteen years in branding and marketing, and she still missed it.This is what happened to the cover of Call of Matter — and why, eventually, she gave in.Call of Matter launches February 2027. Read the excerpts at callofmatter.com.