Big Reason # 4 —
Crappy Covers As with many things in life, first impressions are 90 % of the game.
Lots of self - publishers have found success even with
crappy covers.
They routinely have
crappy covers that look totally homemade by someone with no photoshop skills, their prices often are not reasonable, and it seems that they are preying on authors who want to have that level of legitimacy by saying that a «real» publisher decided to publish them.
So I guess my point was more about don't sign with a publisher that always has
crappy covers and then complain about a crappy cover.
Even if we're pursuing traditional publishing, we might judge potential publishers on formatting issues just as we do for
crappy covers.
I'd be all for a site that names and shames publishers that provide
crappy covers and formatting.
Yes, I'd look past
a crappy cover if I had a trusted recommendation about the quality inside.
Nothing kills your chances better than
a crappy cover.
«I won't buy a book with
a crappy cover, and I am finding I won't buy an e-book with one either.
Let's be honest,
a crappy cover makes you assume the writing is crappy.
No pricing strategy will help sell a poorly written, poorly edited book with
a crappy cover.
You spent all that time and effort writing a novel in the first place, so don't cut corners by giving
it a crappy cover.
Presumably, so long as I avoid certain pitfalls of self - publishing (improper editing,
crappy cover design, and lazy marketing), the only big disadvantages of going indie would be visibility: hurdles to jump to get brick - and - mortar locations to stock the title, and to get Amazon and other online retailers to stick the book cover somewhere noticeable (Hugh Howey is a very convincing pseudo-advocate for self - publishing).
Jess Lee presents Case Study: Turn
a Crappy Cover into a Golden CoverCreate Your Own Ebook Cover Create Your Own Ebook Cover posted at Create Your Own Ebook Cover, saying, «You probably have an old mock - up book cover sitting on your hard drive.
But don't make the mistake of writing
a crappy cover letter if you are not sure about what to include in it.
Not exact matches
it wasn't immediately clear to me that Vol fans / boosters were using the PSU connection as a
cover to protesting the hiring of a
crappy coach.
how about that for a
crappy transfer talk... we already have a 33 year old
cover we don't need another one... this is like the worst transfer window ever.
A couple of
crappy teams, no doubt, but they've been
covering like bandits.
And the county always signs up for the
crappiest plans too, so nothing is
covered.
If you
cover the playground than on rainy days it wont soak the equipment and sand, then kids can still play on
crappy days.
Since my memory is pretty
crappy and I almost always forget what I just read (don't even get me started on remembering names), I really appreciate the «Key Concepts» he adds to the end of each chapter reviewing all the salient points he
covered.
I haven't slept well for the last couple of nights, my little princess is fighting with flu and ear infection, the weather has gone all cold on us in Helsinki, the temperatures have dropped down 10 - 11 °C in less than 24 hours, I also had my last filling and tooth «
cover» done yesterday, so once again I have looked like a tomato and felt
crappy, etc... Not the best week and sometimes, no matter how positive you try to think and deal with everything, sometimes you just need this one day to simply feel like * hit, cry it out if you have to and have a nice comfort in form of chocolate bar or an ice cream sundae... That's what this day will serve me for and hopefully tomorrow will be much better.
hi, its not easy to paint cars, but, you can be GOD in painting, if prep work
crappy, you cant
cover that with paint
The upside is that the car is well - suited to
crappy, ice -
covered roads, even if the adaptable suspension remains relatively harsh even in «comfort» model.
The
cover of her latest novel is like a
crappy airbrushed T - shirt you got on spring break and no longer want but can't bear to toss — which pretty much sums up Florida.
You can not say the same thing about any digital bookstore, it is full of
crappy e-book
covers that look like they were made in MS paint or downloaded from Google and use Comic Sans Font on the title.
I devoted an entire series of videos based on
crappy book
covers.
If you wrote a
crappy book, with a bad
cover and a passive blurb and opening sample, no amount of shouting into the noise will help your book sell.
Bad
covers, bad editing and generally
crappy books don't sell.
I've said this before, but I believe once the newness of indie publishing dies down those who are posting sub-pro level stuff, with slapped on
covers, unedited and unvetted work,
crappy back
cover copy, they will tire of the low sales and drift away.
We will see a lot of
crappy - looking
covers from this.
Even worse, if they see the Awesome Indies seal of approval on a bunch of
crappy looking
covers, they are going to start associating the seal with
crappy books of low or questionable quality.
There's a massive percentage in UK now
covered by high speed broadband, a lot of people are just tight and have a
crappy service provider and expect miracles.
All the cheering and best marketing campaigns in the world is not going to successfully
cover up a
crappy product, or change the mind of someone who simply just does not like what is placed in front of them.
1) Question: Yes, it has been a
crappy year for me, but can the video game company really take my image off of the
cover of this year's version of a game named after me?
But the Pixel has a million little foibles that make it kind of
crappy: the USB - C port at the bottom is sharp and digs into my fingers when I hold it, Bluetooth connections are easily cut off if I
cover up the glass window on the back, and the headphone audio coming out of the Pixel is just terrible.
But if you are having a
crappy day, the fees in this condo listing may help: «Common Fees $ 85 Per Month,
Covers Now Removal.»
I discovered that I can take the cushion
covers off of our
crappy couch and put them in the washing machine!