A picture says a thousand words: for an author, it’s more like 120,000 words. The right book cover image is crucial for attracting customers. J.K. Rowlings’ cover art for the book, the Sorcerer’s Stone (Philosopher’s Stone), uses key ingredients to entice, but NOT reveal the story. Breaking down these elements into their basic parts, we can create a list to follow when you are creating your book covers. (This list is by no means definitive; feel free to add or substitute.)
The Future of Self-Publishing eBooks for 2011
The Changing Face of Book Sales… Book retailers are transforming as many customers go online to purchase. This move has put a lot of pressure on traditional chain stores to create revenue and profits. Similarly, digital books continue to gain market share, and are now “estimated at 8% to10% of revenue fro some major publishing”, […]
eBook Cover Design Tutorial: Typography and Fonts
When I was but a young apprentice, my wise Art Director taught me – never create “shlock”. Unfamiliar with this term, I innocently asked what it meant. SCHLOCK (Wikipedia) Schlock is an English word of Yiddish origin meaning “something cheap, shoddy, or inferior.” In other words it means you are settling for something other than […]
Dan L. Hays Author, talks on eBook Marketing, Publishing and Promotion
Dan L. Hays is a gifted writer who has been pursuing his craft for more than 25 years. His passion has always been writing, but he had a writing block that he could not understand for many years. He wrote two books that publishers were interested in, but he backed away and the books were […]
Free Literary Agent / Publisher Database – Query Tracker
Wouldn’t it be great If before you query a literary agent, you could have data to inform you about the agent in question, such as Query Response Times, True Genres of Interest, Preferred Manuscript Lengths, and the Best Time to Query? Now you can with Query Tracker’s FREE database of agents and publishers.
Register a Book Copyright with US Copyright Office How-to Video
Although your work is copyrighted from the first stroke of the keystroke, you may want to pay to officially register your copyright for your self-published or e-published ebook. Read more: How to Register a Copyright (USA) — Unruly Guides ePublishing
Author Copyright and Trademark Basics with Attorney, Karen J. Bernstein
Intellectual Property Rights attorney, Karen J. Bernstein, joins Unruly Guides this week to cover a critical topic for writers and authors–the basics you need to know about copyright and trademark before e-publishing an ebook.