Thinking About Stock Images And Book Cover Design
Thinking About Stock Images And Book Cover Design Good book cover design requires careful reflection and a considerable amount of compromise between what the author wants and what will actually work in practice. In this article, I want to set out why choosing the...I Can Just Use A Stock Image Library – Can’t I?
I Can Just Use A Stock Image Library – Can’t I? What A Strange Way To Behave! Many self-published authors have a peculiar approach to the stories they write. They will agonize over every word, every comma and every full-stop to get it just right. Some...
Book Cover Design For Your Genre
In our fast-moving, modern world, we are bombarded with messages every hour of every day. Everyone wants to sell to us, it seems.
We cannot turn on a television or radio without fast-paced advertisements being blasted at us. We cannot walk past a shop window without seeing posters promoting the latest offers and enticing deals. Every truck and van carries a company logo of some sort, a “mission statement” and a contact telephone number and website address. Buses and trains are mobile advertising hoardings. Even police cars and ambulances advertise their mission to serve the public…
A Brief History Of Early Book Covers
Books have been a part of this world for a very, very long time. Earlier book cover designs were handmade and beautiful. Unlike the professional book cover designs made today, those took a lot of hard work and a very special set of skills to be crafted. The material mainly used to make those book covers and book cover designs were leather and timber….