Hey! Thanks for the thoughtful response. I definitely want to include the illustration in the book and you're right it's probably not a big deal memory-wise, and besides...I already have two other images inside the book for maps of the world. Amazon will tell me if there is an issue when I go to upload it. I did have an idea for a gear and wing icon that might serve the story nicely, but that might be an asset to create for the next installment.

The slanted text makes that upper right hand corner look bare, I'll have to figure out something for it. More gears? ;) I might also replace some of the gears. It depends, I'm looking to ship this book and start on the next one. It may not be perfect, but it's better than the previous covers.

I've toyed with the idea of adding more illustrations. I like the idea of doing something like a Japanese light novel, but I don't know how well self-published light novels sell on Kindle. I suppose most people don't do them, because they're authors first and not author/artists. Plus, I know the self-pub crowd on there tends to write to market and iterate fast, so doing a few illustrations for a book would be out of the question.

That could mean it's a niche market to make a name in...