It's difficult for authors to be
objective about book cover design and interior book design, and to some extent design is subjective, because you like what you like.
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 using design to sell more books) from watching.
by Helen Sedwick explains what self - published authors need to
know about their book cover design ownership rights and how to avoid having look - alike covers for their books.
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.
In this post, «5 Things Every Author Needs to
Understand About Book Cover Design,» Brooke Warner talks about the importance of book cover design, including some of the points we discussed in the recent Wordherder meeting.
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.
I should've started this page a long time ago... but here are the podcasts, Google Hangouts and other interviews I've participated in,
mostly about book cover design, starting online businesses, or book marketing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This week Jim Kukral (of Author Marketing Club) invited me to speak
about book cover design at an event he's organizing in Cleveland this September, to share some of the results and the things I've learned about book cover design and selling books (the relationship between them, and subtle design changes and hacks that boost sales).
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.
I see a lot of articles
about book cover design that conclude with ugly examples — it's very possible an author is successful because their story is good and they misinterpret the impact their cover design is having.
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.