When it comes to any design, choosing the right colors is just as important as the font or photo. But every color evokes a different emotional response. Knowing what color combination work well together is half the battle of book cover design.
Kindle eBooks Overtake Paperbacks in Sales
It’s official. Barely 6 months after stating its Kindle e-books were outselling its selection of hardcovers, Amazon announced it sold more ebooks for the Kindle e-reader than paperbacks in 2010.
Book Covers that Annoy Booksellers
An informative, tongue-in-cheek list of what to do if you WANT bookstores to NOT carry your book — something every writer desires, right?
eBook Cover Design Tutorial: Choosing Colors
More often than not, the topic of your book helps determine the color theme. For example, a book on babies or weddings use whites or soft pastels; murder mysteries may include red or black; boating, oceans and space science themes utilize blues, blacks or even green.
eBook Cover Design Tutorial: Breaking Down the Elements
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.)
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 […]
Starting an e-Book
If you are considering writing a novel or e-book, then we would love to help you. First, be prepared to do a lot of work. While we are very excited about working with new potential authors – we cannot and won’t write the piece for you. This is something that YOU want to do. One […]