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Hi all, my first book, Small Fish Big Fish, has been out since October last year, but it's not selling well. Let's assume the story is good and it's been well edited
The problem could be the genre, the blurb (which I've changed so often I'm totally confused) or the cover!
I'd really appreciate your thoughts on which cover you like better, and whether the blub works for you. This is a literary fiction with a coming of age theme.
Here's a revised blurb:
The lives and loves of a group of teenage boys and girls growing up in an impoverished Scottish neighborhood in 1965 are explored in moving detail in this fast paced coming-of-age drama.
Seventeen-year-old Steven McBride is a college student struggling to find meaning in his life. He has no girlfriend, little money, and no job. Things seem pretty bleak. But when he finds ten pounds on the floor of a grocery store and meets a gorgeous girl at a dance, he thinks his luck might finally have changed.
Stephen soon finds out that luck is fickle and can vanish when you need it most. Robbed, roughed up and constantly bullied, Stephen is forced to make a choice. Stand up for what he believes and pay the price, or run and pay an even higher price.
And the covers (People or Fish)

I'd really appreciate your thoughts on which cover you like better, and whether the blub works for you. This is a literary fiction with a coming of age theme.
Here's a revised blurb:
The lives and loves of a group of teenage boys and girls growing up in an impoverished Scottish neighborhood in 1965 are explored in moving detail in this fast paced coming-of-age drama.
Seventeen-year-old Steven McBride is a college student struggling to find meaning in his life. He has no girlfriend, little money, and no job. Things seem pretty bleak. But when he finds ten pounds on the floor of a grocery store and meets a gorgeous girl at a dance, he thinks his luck might finally have changed.
Stephen soon finds out that luck is fickle and can vanish when you need it most. Robbed, roughed up and constantly bullied, Stephen is forced to make a choice. Stand up for what he believes and pay the price, or run and pay an even higher price.
And the covers (People or Fish)

