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New Cover Reveal! (Book Two)
Strangling Heartstrings
I am currently doing a little series where I rebrand older releases under my defunct pen name to see whether I can improve their exposure through better fitting genre expectations and trying new marketing things.
In my last, I redid the cover for the first book in the Bleeding Heart Series, called Heart-Shaped Hands. HSH is a short collection of love poems and rebranding it to match that genre was really simple, as the aesthetics is just minimalist, which is easy to make cute.
The next book I’ll be working on won’t be quite so easy.
Strangling Heartstrings captures the death of my first relationship. It starts by looking at the warning signs we ignored as teenagers, leads into the toxic codependency we formed as young adults, but then goes even further and darker, talking about the survivor’s guilt I experienced in leaving a partner who threatened suicide in that event — ending on self-forgiveness. Not very light topics, or ones that anyone would…
