The Book Makers Cover Designers know the most important qualities that go into
successful book covers, and how to best communicate what your book is about in an instant.
Look at this website for ideas of
successful book covers.
The most
successful book covers seem to have had minimal direction from the author who has given the designer free rein.
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Apparently because I'm
a successful book cover designer with a professional interest, I was suspect, and only amateurs were allowed to offer free covers).
7 lessons in
successful book cover strategy from Michael Gelb and Kelly Howell's Brain Power: Improve Your Mind as You Age
Not exact matches
This
book covers many important issues that I wasn't able to verbalize but that are essential to being a
successful parent.
A
successful front
cover attracts a browser's attention, while back
cover content assures the reader a
book is worth investing time and money in a literary journey.
Derek is a
book marketing expert,
book cover designer, and
successful young...
Ask
successful authors what single method guarantees
book sales, and the answer isn't «great editing» or a «knock - em - dead
cover», but the power of their email list to enthuse readers, make their
books visible and generate reviews and sales.
In the same way that
successful authors often give
cover quotes to
books, you can include quotes from other writers here in the description of your
book.
We asked her about writing and marketing YA fantasy, launching a
successful first
book, accumulating a street team, getting bloggers to reveal your
cover, and having paperbacks and hardbacks as well as ebooks made.
The
successful indie
books now are professionally edited and formatted with professional
covers.
This depends on the goals of the author and the platform we're marketing on, but the easiest and most
successful strategies always involve a well - written, well - edited
book that's easily classifiable by genre, and communicates that genre clearly with the
book cover and synopsis.
By following your advice I've stabilized my sales, redone my
covers, and am about to have my most
successful launch yet for my third
book.
Tweet Shawn Hansen is a published author, as well as a graphic artist (she has designed several of my
book covers) and someone who now teaches others how to be
successful writing and marketing
books online.
At The
Book Designer blog, Joel Friedlander's monthly ebook design awards help you recognize & create
successful ebook
covers
Sample topics: writing pitches and back
cover copy,
book covers, writing a
successful synopsis, creating reader expectations,
book tours, etc..
And if you don't think your
book cover is one of your most powerful tools — you have a lot of catch up work to do on what it means to be a
successful author.
These essays are then collected and published in a red -
covered book, known as the Red Book, the mere sight of which causes most alumni to drop whatever it is they are doing to pore through the stories of personal triumphs and failures, tragedies marring otherwise successful lives, and humor and hope even in the midst of desp
book, known as the Red
Book, the mere sight of which causes most alumni to drop whatever it is they are doing to pore through the stories of personal triumphs and failures, tragedies marring otherwise successful lives, and humor and hope even in the midst of desp
Book, the mere sight of which causes most alumni to drop whatever it is they are doing to pore through the stories of personal triumphs and failures, tragedies marring otherwise
successful lives, and humor and hope even in the midst of despair.
One common sentiment I hear from
successful indie authors is that they pay close attention to the
cover and will react to market circumstances and situations in order to maximize their chances of a customer doing that deeper drill into browsing their
books.
Not only should your
cover design be
successful using different title lengths and images, but more importantly, it must create a look or brand that'll easily identify all future
books as being part of the same series.
I hope you'll check out our show as well as some of her previous episodes which
cover topics like email list building, attending conferences, social media and of course, all things related to the
successful marketing of indie published
books.
On a related note, a
successful writer shared that he spends 2 - 5 thousand dollars on
book production and launch, of which 2 - 3 thousand are on
book cover and editing (2 edits, 3 proof reads), and the rest are on advertising.
Joanna Penn wrote a detailed post filled with excellent information about what was involved when she decided to change the
covers — and titles — of her
books in a
successful rebranding effort.
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Successful Author Mindset
There are vital lessons to learn that will maximise your potential by treating your
book like a product that requires certain things in order to be
successful such as a well designed
cover.
But is a stellar
book cover really necessary to be
successful at self - publishing?
Creating a
successful book requires more than support systems in editorial and
cover art.
New research from Nielsen shows that the most important element of
successful book sales is uploading a
cover image with your
book data.
All you need for a
successful book is a beautiful / well written story in a popular genre and a professional
book cover design.
I would say that some authors stress that
successful books require a fresh perspective on a popular topic or that they
cover a subject that's never been written about.
Many authors stress that
successful books require a fresh perspective on a popular topic or that they
cover a subject that's never been written about.
The starting point for
successful book marketing involves choosing precisely the right text and graphics for the front and back
covers of a
book, along with the lettering on the spine.
These titles are just a few
successful books with effective
cover designs surely the result of the team work between authors and designers who merge their talents to create strong
covers to stand out in a sea of competition.
Pull together a collection of
covers from other
successful books in your genre and notice the common themes and tropes.
It's awesome that his first
books became
successful even though they started with really bad
cover art.
Anbd would H.H.
Books sign new undiscovered authors, or pick up
successful indies and ramp up the editing,
cover art, etc..?
Head to the bookstore to study the
books in your genre, and then design a
cover similar in style to those
successful titles.
Some of our clients here at
Book Cover Cafe have incredibly
successful events selling between $ 700 — $ 1500 worth of
books in a matter of a few hours.
Look behind the
covers of many
successful books, including Nina Amir's classic How to Blog a
Book: How to Write, Publish, and Promote Your Work One Post at a Time, and you'll the blog post origins of the
books.
She has worn many hats — she's published with major New York houses, then broke away and created her own imprint; has successfully published over 20
books and sold in excess of 1,000,000 copies; understands niche publishing and marketing; has created publicity campaigns for her own work that landed her on Oprah, Donahue, CNN and even grabbed a
cover story in People magazine; she's penetrated the foreign rights market with her work in 16 countries to date; she has guided and coached many others from creation to completion of their work; she has created and chair several publishing conferences; and she has successfully turned several publishing disasters into
successful outcomes for their authors.
Take a look at why I thought Sarah A. Denzil's
cover and
book description were
successful (and what I would have done differently in a few instances).
Learn what you can from
successful authors and be willing to experiment with your own price,
book covers, and descriptions.
You will come away with: • insights on how to work with the Tattered
Cover • how to create a great
book signing event • how to get your
book into the Tattered
Cover • how to create great sales • what Tattered
Cover Press is all about • the steps
successful authors take that ones that limp along don't • new friends in the authoring community Tell all your author friends... the more, the merrier!
Even with self - publishing, you will still need a proofreader, editor, illustrator and
book cover artist in order to become
successful.
- A «hook»
cover letter - Table of contents - A market analysis (why the
book will be
successful based on marketing aspects)- Author bio and platform - Outline (brief summary of each chapter)- Completed sample chapters (submit the number of chapters the guidelines require)
A
successful author's profits are being used not only to pay her own fee, but the fees of an author whose own
book sales don't
cover the firm's annual costs.
As a matter of fact, the two biggest determining factors of having a
successful Ebook will be the actual
book and its
cover.
There are no guarantees in the publishing business, but most
successful self - published authors credit their
covers for being valuable players on their
books» sales teams.