Category: Making Your Own Cover

How to Conceptualize Your Cover Design (and how not to)

Nov 16, 2023

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Benita J. Thompson

in Design Process, Making Your Own Cover

What’s spookier than the thought of coming up with a cover concept that’ll sell your book? Um… not much? Maybe finding the right cover designer or coming up with a marketing strategy… But what if I told you the process of brainstorming ideas for your cover will ultimately help with marketing too, so you can…
10 Easy Hacks to Polish Your Book Cover’s Text

Oct 9, 2023

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Benita J. Thompson

in Fonts, Making Your Own Cover, Typography

One of the worst offenders on self-published book covers tends to be the text. I’ve seen a thousand covers with great photomanipulations or artwork, only it’s (to be perfectly frank) totally ruined by the way the text is added.