How to judge a book by its coverRoger Cox
To delete partial text within a text box, triple-click the text with the Type tool, and then press Delete. Add a photo to your book coverSelect the Rectangular Frame tool and drag to create a frame that surrounds the front cover page. Make sure it extends to the red bleed lines at th...
Readers are so used to seeing thousands of book covers every year, and almost every one of them will have some sort of logline or testimonial (or even just a line that says “from the author of X book”) — so if your design is missing this element, your cover is in danger of fee...
If you haven’t already, this is the point where you’ll start adding all the elements that make a book cover more than just a piece of art. In this section, we’ll show you how to avoid some of the most common mistakes we’ve seen on self-made book covers. ...
Cover elements like the image, font face, featured characters, and colors all impact the emotional reaction potential readers might have to a book.Best practices differ by genre, and like everything else in publishing, opinions of cover designs are subjective. This is why it’s so important to...
You're finally ready to put it all together. To make sure that the dimensions of your jacket are perfect, you'll need to first measure the size of your book’s face from bottom to top to find its length then spine to edge to find its width. Cut a strip of paper six inches longer...
HOW TO GET A RANGE OF DESIGNS – WITHOUT GOING BROKE I decided that using a book cover design contest would be a great way of getting a range of different ideas without breaking the bank and I used the services of99designs. ELIMINATION ...
Follow this essential 11-step checklist to make sure your book cover designs are perfect, every time.
Designers are skilful professionals, but they don’t have a lot of time to work on your book cover design and probably don’t have time to read the novel. So they rely on you to give them the branding information that we discussed above. ...
to keep your summary concise. A book summary should include the book’s title, author, genre, plot overview, and themes. While the reader doesn’t need to glean all the characters’ names or the author’s voice from the summary, they should know enough to describe the book in basic ...