Sentences with phrase «ugly book covers»

Unluckily, there are too many ugly book covers out there that no self - respecting author or reader should accept.

Also if the website is ugly or has hundreds of ugly book covers from other eager author desperate for visibility, stay away.

We can all agree that ugly book covers are inevitable.

This is unfortunate because indie authors already have a tough time figuring out what makes a «Good Cover» — and if book cover contests like this give prizes to fairly ordinary or even pretty ugly book covers, the bar will not be raised.

The trick is taking off the ugly book covers.

It is probably the ugliest book cover I have ever designed, but if you compare it with the cover from John Piper's book on the right, you'll see why I created the cover as I did.

And because nobody wants it, or because they're scared off by the ugly book cover, the author can't make any sales.

That's why we have accepted the challenge to change that and hereby declare the death of the ugly book cover!

An ugly book cover, or no book cover, sends the message to the prospective reader that you're amateurish, lazy, or sloppy.

Not exact matches

I had some trouble cooking them and they turned out a little broken and ugly, but you can't judge a book by its cover.

Don't try to cut costs on design so you'll have a bigger book marketing budget later you plan to use for advertising — ads will fail if the book cover is ugly.

If you can't give your book away for free, it's probably because you still haven't gotten 10 + reviews, or your cover is ugly.

The only things America Star Books is still entitled to is the ISBN number (there are countless numbers of those), the cover design (which was ugly anyway) and the page layout.

Book marketing is putting your book in front of readers who will like it and remove barriers of resistance (price, lack of reviews, ugly cover, etBook marketing is putting your book in front of readers who will like it and remove barriers of resistance (price, lack of reviews, ugly cover, etbook in front of readers who will like it and remove barriers of resistance (price, lack of reviews, ugly cover, etc..)

The biggest mistake is trying to promote an unfinished book, that hasn't been professionally edited, and that has an ugly or lack - lustre cover.

I could pull samples from the 25 top small presses and publishers, showing off their ugly cover designs, to demonstrate what a poor choice these options are to authors (since the cover will be the biggest factor in your book's success, and small presses or services that charge a publishing fee skimp on quality design to make more money for themselves).

Unless you have an ugly cover, no reviews or a boring book description.

There are a lot of new solutions out there offering book cover software, or premade book cover templates, but a lot of those are also ugly.

But a lot of indie authors are also publishing poorly written, poorly edited books with ugly covers.

Indie authors perversely focus on marketing, social media, and «getting the word out» about their book because they are loathe to address and fix the real problems (the book itself may not be very good, or their cover or website is ugly, or the book doesn't have any reviews).

Indie authors are getting better at packaging their books with a nice cover and nice formatting, but on the whole, indie author blogs, service sites and communities are ugly.

The big ugly yellow one... So I can have a great actual cover that wins lots of awards (which Sell Your Book on Amazon has), and I can have an image on Amazon that attracts lots of attention.

Books take years to write, not a day with a hideous flat hook and a cheap ugly cover smacked on it.

The first book is an excellent example of an ugly cover made by a traditional publishing house to appear in print.

Once the cover ended up being an ugly old shed which wasn't mentioned in the book at all.

With the last two books, the ugly edition was all you could get for a period of time, and then I made the cover purty.

In The Ugly Edition, author Hugh Howey tells us he didn't really want to make the «ugly» design for the forthcoming (August 17) third book in the trilogy — the «Dust cover,» as I never tire of saying in my irritating way.

If they click «Look Inside» and see ugly formatting, even if the ebook cover and print cover look good, they may not buy, in which case, it's better not to have any print book and just go with the ebook.

An ugly or unreadable book cover design is a huge hurdle that even a fantastic book often can't overcome.

Get a decent cover and people will start buying your book and reviewing it (if nobody is buying or reviewing your book — your cover is probably ugly, no matter how much you love it.)

This video from AuthorHouse, on the other hand, uses dozens of very ugly, unprofessional book cover designs as examples of «Good»...

Having an author website, or business cards or bookmarks, or a certain number of print books included in the package totally doesn't matter if you have an ugly cover; everything additional won't save you.

The bad thing is that they might put a really ugly cover on your book and keep your money.

Indie book covers are already ugly, why are we giving out awards to ugly covers instead of finding ways to reward beautiful ones?

What the world really needs is a place you can upload your book cover, and they will tell you just how ugly it is, and make you a new one for free.

Jupiteration is a fun «don't judge a book by its cover» wave shooter with ugly visuals, but solid gameplay and a decent asking price.