I had a bit of fun last Thursday (April 11). The website where I found my editor for Under Shōko’s Bed, reedsy.com, broadcasts hour-long sessions where one or another of the cover designers with whom they work gives critiques of book cover designs. I submitted the ones I posted here on April 1 for Under Shōko’s Bed and Neyuki, and Neyuki was one of the twenty or so that the cover designer, Micaela Alcaino, chose to critique! (https://blog.reedsy.com/live/cover-critique-micaela-alcaino/ at about the 28 minute point) Micaela said she loved the image, but suggested I use a narrow font, all caps, for the title and make it red. She did not specify what shade of red, so as I reworked it, I chose a hue I thought would bring out the color beneath the frost on the woman’s lips. Micaela also did not specify whether the author’s name should also be all caps, but all the comparable covers she showed had the authors’ names in caps, so that is what I went with. What do you think? Would this cover make you pick up the book and look it over?