There are people putting up fly by night
book cover design sites like crazy right now because they're trying to cash in on the self - publishing craze.
I made a tutorial to making your own animated book covers and added it to
my book cover design site, here:
Today
my book cover design site got two comments concerning my early drafts for a book I'm working on called «Lust Boat.»
On
my book cover design site, I offer to do free makeovers for indie authors — on the condition that I get to make what I want, and that they don't get much say in the creative process.
Not exact matches
About
Site - A place to celebrate and share good
book design from
cover to content.
About
Site - A blog about
book cover design, interior layout
design and typesetting, and advice for self - publishing authors.
You'll be
designing my next
book cover and my web
site.
You can
design and buy 1,000 fancy business cards advertising your
book cover and contact information from a
site like GotPrint.com for under $ 20.
At a host of online
sites, a writer can find and hire talented freelance help to produce great
book covers, to
design and lay out her print edition, and to format her ebooks (which she can also learn to do easily for herself).
These
book - centric
sites sought to give authors the funds they needed to secure professional editing, formatting,
cover design, and even promotion, all while acknowledging that the consumers who visited their
sites were specifically looking for
books.
TheBookDesigner: Linked to the section about
book cover design (although there is good information on the rest of the
site too).
eBook Launch
Book Covers site offers a choice between three types of
cover services with increasing
design and revision options.
For different angles and musings on
book covers, visit
book design web
sites and blogs.
The best thing to do before
designing your
cover is to go to the library or on a
site like Amazon and look at 10 - 50
books in your genre.
On the
site, you will register the title, subtitle, and author name, be given an ISBN (or register your own), upload your
book contents, upload or create your
cover design, designate the sale price for your
book, and choose your desired channels of distribution.
Createspace does offer these
book cover design services, or you could hire your own designer through
sites such as Fiverr.
From trying to get the
cover dimensions right, to endlessly scanning the many image
sites in search of a suitable photo,
designing a
book cover can often be a hellish chore, and can have you tearing your hair out at times!
SelfEspress ℠, the online self - publishing
site for the EBM, provides writing and
cover design tools that streamline the
book design process.
The
site can jumpstart your
book cover's
design, help you let your designer — or your publisher's designer — know what you like, and what you dislike.
However for the moment, I'm using this
site primarily to provide
book design services for indie authors... this is because nearly all indie
book projects fail to get off the ground due to unprofessional
book covers (what's the point of having 100,000 authors marketing a
book that nobody wants to read because the
cover hurts their eyes?)
I have 374 followers on my blog and of those, I'd say at least 100 - 150 are after my business for marketing my
book,
designing me a
book cover, or building me a better web
site.
She spent some time learning the ropes: setting up a Web
site, figuring out social media, getting blurbs for the
book, arranging for an author photo and finding someone to
design the
cover.
Here's another
site dedicated to showcasing
book cover designs,
Covers.
Another option for
book cover design is to use a
site like Fiverr.
If you want to hire a
book cover designer, but don't know who to trust — consider crowdsourcing
sites like 99
Designs and Crowdspring.
As «Indie
Books» on Twitter says (linking to their
cover war on Masquerade Crew, a
site whose
design represents the standard of indie authors):
And you'll find there a dozen or so links to further
sites on
book cover design.
He did the banner and
book cover design on my
site.