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And that’s doable.ģ- It doesn’t matter if you like it. And that’s what you’re aiming for, not the truly artistic stuff they slap on bestsllers. Take heart though, most cover design in traditional houses unless it’s for a front liner is done by someone with a degree in English who just started interning last week. Why? Because people who scan thumb nails are looking for “looks like my genre” and “not hideously amateurish.” The thing is that her cover was fine in the early days of indie publishing, but now we’re all trying to look like the big guys and that means looking at covers in your subgenre and imitating them. (And yes, she’s going to be very mad at me, but both covers link to buy her book.)
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Seriously, if your book is science fiction/space opera reminiscent of Bujold which one communicates it better (and as apologies to friend for using her cover - but she’s driving me nuts not allowing me to do new ones and I’m being a bitch - I’ll link her book on Amazon) this:Īnd yes, the lower one is slightly amateurish, because I was doing it with free images from Pixabay, just to show her what I COULD do.īUT which one communicates “I am a space opera book with nobility in various planets?” to you, precisely. And those signals should signify first of all genre.
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That is, the cover isn’t a representation of what you wrote, it’s a series of signals. Yeah, I did, but what you need to think about is what you’ll accurately represent. SECOND Yes, the cover should be an accurate representation of your book. So forget all that stuff about having your hero looking just like he does in the book, which is why you need to hire an artist for ten thousand dollars and… No. If you have the cover, you can put it at the end of blog posts like this and get people to pre-order your book, while you’re taking care of the other biddiness (Unless you’re like me and paranoid and need to have the prepared manuscript on hand before you put it on preorder.) The cover is a marketing vehicle pure and simple, which is why we’re talking about it before we talk of editing or other things to make your book better. It doesn’t matter if the spaceships in your book aren’t the color they are in the cover. The cover is not meant to faithfully display a scene from your book. You might think it is, but you’d be wrong.
It’s sort of like that with me and these abstract explanations.īut something had to be done about my covers and I’ll explain later this One Simple Trick, I found ).įirst let’s get to basics about covers and dispel some of the myths I see y’all come up with.įirst and most importantly, no, the cover isn’t about your book. You know what, a cow can stare at a palace, but it won’t learn masonry. I’m fairly sure she’s not writing them in Mandarin Chinese, but that’s how I’m reading them. Cedar has done posts on covers where she lays out design principles. Where I’m special needs is at learning from principles laid out or from explanations. Most, except for where I’m special needs. I ended up taking the wmg cover design workshop (highly recommended) and most of what I have to impart now comes from this. I started out making covers with almost random pictures, and some lettering in the first font that hit my eye.Īnd then the sales dropped, and I started looking and comparing with other covers. It worked, but it produced powerfully ugly books.Īs I said pre-history, but things have changed since then.
This was also the old days of formatting when you either coded the ebook by hand or you zipfiled it and put it through the coverter.
The big thing then was to make sure you had the right aspect, because many people publishing didn’t. Photographs, something that vaguely represented the story. When I first went to the Oregon workshop about indie, back in the early days of ebooks, in 2011 - this was when Smashwords was still a leading player in ebooks - we were told to just use any covers. We could talk about sealing ships and wax, but I’ve only had one cup of Deathwish coffee, so covers it is. (Which is even $20 cheaper than their current sale going on
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