Your book cover is like a highway billboard. How’s that? It’s simple. Just as people are driving past a billboard at 70 MPH, shoppers in a book store are walking by your book sitting on shelf at the same relevant speed. Like a billboard, if you first don’t catch their attention you’ll never deliver the message. http://www.book-marketing-expert.com Billboards use images to … [Read more...]
How to Create Book Covers That Sell
Nothing is more important than an effective book cover to sell a book. The front cover must stand out to get people’s attention within a second or the sale may be lost. Here are a few key points to make sure your cover has what it takes to sell your book. As important as it is to write the best book possible (quality will lead to word-of-mouth sales), the book may never … [Read more...]
Your Book Cover: What Kind of First Impression Does it Make?
I was just reading a blog where a lady said she was ashamed to admit she tends to ignore books with amateurish covers even though she suspects some of the stories inside those covers might be pretty good. As a book cover designer I can tell you no one should feel guilty about judging a book by its cover. Why? Because humans are, by nature, extremely … [Read more...]
Book Cover Design – Choosing the Right Designer for Your Book
Getting the right book cover design is critical to the success of your book, and choosing the right designer is critical to getting a great book cover. There are hundreds (thousands?) of book cover designers out there, so how do you choose the best one? First of all, there are probably many designers who could do an excellent job creating a cover for you. Selecting the right … [Read more...]
15 Tips for Great Book Cover Design
After their book is written and editors sign off on the final rewrite, authors often turn their attention to what will become one of their most agonizing tasks in the entire process – deciding on a book cover design. One reason the task becomes so daunting and painful is that authors too often wait until the end of the process, instead of nearer the beginning, to think … [Read more...]
Your Book Is Judged by Its Cover — 7 Tips for Effective Internet Book Selling
Getting Your Book Ready to be Noticed
So…You’ve done the final edit. Now what? Among the many steps you still have to take is: page design. Page design? Big deal you might say. What I need is a great cover for my book. Your potential reader has perhaps 5 seconds to look at your cover. Maybe 10 seconds or more to read the back of your book, before deciding if they want to open it and scan the first few … [Read more...]