True story: when I first shared this cover online, I got a comment from a woman. Guess this one was, well, meant to be (hey-oh!) We went lighter on all the colors, and I have to say, OH MY GOD is it good. So we went back, and in the end, this was the final cover. We were a little worried that maybe the dude looked too old or too formal to be Jason, so Heather had some fun with photoshop.īut yeah, that didn’t quite do it. That’s not to say we didn’t try a few things with it first. You can see that the colors are a little bit different, but on the whole, it was very close. This was the first version of what became the cover that I saw… Like I said, they knew already that this one was their favorite, and Barnes & Noble had approved it already too. But this was 2012, and more graphic covers just weren’t on-trend) (I won’t lie, the one above was, and still is, my favorite. But don’t just take my word for it, take a look! The first one they showed me was the one that ended up being the brilliant and beautiful cover of Meant to Be (which I still get compliments on to this day), but there were other contenders.

A girl with it all planned out discovers a romance she never expected in this funny debut about a class trip to London that says you'll love 'if you're into swoony romances with a little bit of history thrown in.' This spring break, Julia's rules are about to get defenestrated (SAT. And then there it was … all the cover options the brilliant and talented Heather Daugherty had created. Meant to be - Lauren Morrill - Google Books. We were a year away from the release of Meant to Be, my debut novel. I remember getting this email like it was yesterday.

Meant to Be by Lauren Morrill