Authors: Step Away from Images for Book Cover that You Are Emotionally Attached To …
Rarely is it the right choice. Rarely. Your book cover is not you, your friends, or your family. Book covers are for your book buyers. What grabs them? Gets their attention? Shouts out: pick me up?
What authors should do instead: Work with a cover designer who isn’t attached to your image. Yes, he or she should get your voice, your concept and what your book is about. Then, let them do their work. Design. The odds of “getting it right” at the first design are remote. There’s lots that go into the critical book cover design—colors, fonts, placement and yes, emotional hook—but not the author’s … it’s the book buyer’s.
Should you offer your preferred image to the designer? Sure, but the odds are it doesn’t belong on the cover … yet it could be used somewhere on the back or in the interior. Be open and work with a professional.
Judith Briles is a book publishing expert and coach. She empowers authors and is the Founder of AuthorU.org, a membership organization created for the serious author who wants to be seriously successful. She’s been writing about and conducting workshops on publishing since the ’80s. Judith is the author of 35 books including Author YOU: Creating and Building Your Author and Book Platforms (Foreword IndieFab Book of the Year), Snappy Sassy Salty: Wise Words for Authors and Writers and a speaker at publishing conferences. Book #35 was published in 2016: How to Avoid 101 Book Publishing Blunders, Bloopers & Boo-Boos. Get your copy now.
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