Sentences with phrase «ugly cover»

But a lot of indie authors are also publishing poorly written, poorly edited books with ugly covers.
But since these publishers and small presses have really ugly cover design options and their in - house stuff sucks, the authors hire me to make the covers, because covers are important.
The bad thing is that they might put a really ugly cover on your book and keep your money.
I see a lot of ugly covers but don't always stop to think why I don't like them.
Don't use ugly covers: Now, if you're traditionally published you have little control over this.
I think i am going to do this to my old photo albums which have really ugly covers.
(An aside: I did some pretty ugly covers starting off with an old computer and no good software in helping out WMG Publishing.
(An aside: I did some pretty ugly covers starting off with an old computer and no good software in helping out WMG Publishing get started.
But since these publishers and small presses have really ugly cover design options and...
Books take years to write, not a day with a hideous flat hook and a cheap ugly cover smacked on it.
Indie book covers are already ugly, why are we giving out awards to ugly covers instead of finding ways to reward beautiful ones?
Then authors» rights are tied up in over-priced ebooks with ugly covers, being «marketed» on shoddy websites.
Don't necessarily listen to your coach or mentor (especially if they're an indie author, not a cover designer — a lot of indie authors are opinionated about cover design but use ugly covers themselves).
And so they publish their cheap little efforts themselves, as is, figuring their work (along with their ugly covers and inept book design) is «good enough.»
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, etc..)
Choose your title carefully and don't settle for an ugly cover.
Unless you have an ugly cover, no reviews or a boring book description.
Of course, the cover matters less and less depending on your author platform: If you have a big list, if you get traffic to your blog, if you can get all your friends to leave reviews, you can overcome a bad cover with effort, and once readers do get into your story, and love it, you can be successful despite an ugly cover (but it's more work and effort — why risk it?)
The first book is an excellent example of an ugly cover made by a traditional publishing house to appear in print.
It has an ugly cover, and mine is the 2nd review, and it was published 2 years ago.
But, people won't even take it for free if it has an ugly cover and no reviews.
UNLESS you don't have any reviews, have a poorly written book description, or an ugly cover.
The answer is certainly not to put out a bad book with an ugly cover.
If you cheap out, don't be surprised to see your ugly cover end up HERE.
Nothing screams amateur louder than an ugly cover.
Click here if you want to read the worst titles of maybe all time — and see some butt - ugly covers.
Never mind the ugly cover, you can trust me, I've checked it out, the story is quite good!»
Here's what's not exciting — our book marketing and promotion efforts will be wasted if an author has an ugly cover or website, which means we won't be able to serve everybody or work with all authors.
If you don't focus on those two things, all of the promotion in the world won't overcome a topic no one is interested in or an ugly cover or amateur cover.
Should you pay less for an ugly cover, or a pretty one that doesn't sell?
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.
Foboko is kind of a mixed community site where authors and readers can co-exist, but that's unlikely to work well: for one, since most mainstream published books will just go to Amazon and the main sites (because they don't need help with book creation) the books on the site are all indie pub, which means, even if they're really good, most of them have ugly covers, which brings down trust and credibility.
The only danger is hearing a bunch of other authors «support» you when you're making big mistakes (like when you ask for feedback on an ugly cover and everybody says they love it).
An ugly cover letter is one that has nothing new to say and is mundane in tone.
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