About Blog A blog
about book cover design, interior layout design and typesetting, and advice for self - publishing authors.
I'm grateful for the kind words
about my book cover.
«What is remarkable
about the book cover paintings is that Burckhardt infuses the tension between abstraction and representation with freshness, enthusiasm, and humor.
For instance how does «the aesthetics of print books is improving fast» (because it must, you mean) square with «Forget
about the book cover»?
When we talk
about book cover design, we often talk about the color palette, typography and use of images.
I've never been so delirious
about a book cover in my entire career.
I hope to have some exciting news
about the book cover soon!
About Blog A blog
about book cover design, interior layout design and typesetting, and advice for self - publishing authors.
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I wouldn't care so much
about the book cover design, but the reviews were also telling: the non-fiction hardcovers had some reviews, but with a three star average.
Earlier this year I spoke at the Author Marketing Live conference in Cleveland
about book cover design and book marketing.
Talking
about book cover design and the effects of colour, graphics and human nature.
I talk SO MUCH
about book cover design, but I thought it would be easier to just see all the important stuff in one simple book cover design checklist.
This always has mixed results, since people on Facebook don't know anything
about book cover design, they probably aren't your target market, they probably aren't ideal readers of your genre, and they aren't designers.
Share your ideas, or questions
about book cover design, below, as a comment.
Chris Patchell, award winning author of Deadly Lies, In the Dark, and Dark Harvest, interviewed The Thatchery
about book cover design in today's industry.
I wanted to ask
about your book cover design, because you said you do that.
If you are one that has a traditional publisher, you may not have to worry too much
about your book cover art; however, for the «Indie», or self - publishing author, coming up with an effective cover design for both your printed book and digital ebook may seem a daunting process.
We already wrote an awfully lot
about book cover fonts for different genres, so I won't waste any screen space here.
We're talking
about your book cover artwork and the like.
A blog
about book cover design, interior layout design and typesetting, and advice for self - publishing authors.
You have countless decisions to make
about the book cover, back - cover blurb, book formats, metadata, and promotion.
Once you have written your book, and thought
about your book cover design, you are almost ready to upload your book to CreateSpace.
Carla King presents Seven Ways to Jump Start Your Book Cover Design posted at BookWorks, saying, «It's never too early to think
about your book cover design.
Let me know what you think
about my book cover.
In today's episode, I talk
about book cover design with Derek Murphy, who designs all my book covers, plus we discuss the importance of artists also being entrepreneurial.
Share your comments and questions
about book cover design as comments, below, or bring them up during today's free book coaching call.
You can probably tell a lot
about a book cover designer by the book covers that they like.
I talk a lot
about book cover design, but when you start out with that blank canvas and your eager imagination, you're bound to get lost in the possibilities of what to put on your book cover.
And I think Hugh Howey can teach us a lot
about book cover design, but not by sharing his design instincts (fun and artistic, creative like his books, but making a statement about the author, rather than conforming to industry design standards based on what actually moves books).
I also haven't asked
about book cover designers.
Thank you for the mention Ruth
about my book cover designs.
A few weeks ago the whole «should I or should I not» internal debate I was having
about the book cover redesign came to a head when I read a blog post by Diana Urban with BookBub (they know how to sell books) about this exact subject: How to Know Your Book's Cover Needs a Redesign.
Aside from the most obvious places, try Daedalus Books, BookraK, Christianbook.com, Dover Books, or other book catalogs, and blogs
about book cover design such as BookCoverArchive, TheBookDesignReview, and TheBookDesigner's Ebook Design Awards.
I just wrote a pretty long post
about book cover design on my blog and figured some things out.
In this exclusive interview for friends and members of Published & Profitable, book cover design specialists Kathi Dunn and Ron Hobart will be discussing what authors need to know
about book cover design.
I enjoyed this video
about book cover design, as I'm starting to make my own videos.
I'm an awkward, self - conscious speaker, but there's 45 minutes of pretty high value revelations that are sure to change your thinking
about book cover design.
A video of me talking
about book cover design (and trying not to look uncomfortable on camera).
However some of the articles talking
about book cover clichés are actually talking about using the same stock photography — and that's a totally different issue.
Let's say you read some articles
about book cover clichés and decide «I don't want to be a cliché!»
Here's a video of the speech I gave on book cover design at Author Marketing Live 2014; I'm not a very polished speaker, but you'll learn a lot
about book cover design (and -LSB-...]
Incidentally, while indie authors understand the importance of book covers, and keep writing articles
about book cover design, the majority of indie book covers continue to be tragic.
The person in charge of the project wrote back pointing out (rightly) that the image came from an article
about book cover clichés; recommending that we start from the clichés must have seemed unprofessional, even ridiculous to him (shouldn't professional cover designers avoid clichés?).
, last January, Hopkins gave details
about her book cover photoshoots for her fans to see.
TheBookDesigner: Linked to the section
about book cover design (although there is good information on the rest of the site too).
We will need some information
about your book cover such as book title, tagline, printing specifications and other information,
Below you'll find links to all the information
about book cover design that's available on the Book Design Made Simple website, book, videos, and blog.
In her blog post, last January, Hopkins gave details
about her book cover photoshoots for her fans to see.