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If your publishing progress has been keeping step with this series, you’ve now not only got the text of book all ready to go, but you’ve decided on how you’re going to bring it to market (POD, Google eBooks, or whatever) as well. So your next set of tasks revolves around this question: what would you like your masterpiece to look like?
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There are two main parts to this step: coming up with the cover design, and laying out the interior design. Those are both big topics, so this week we'll tackle cover design, and turn to interiors next time around.
So how do you go about coming up with covers that you can be proud of? Note that I say “covers,” because you’ll need up to three, depending on how many formats you want to bring to market. They are:
- An eBook cover, with a single image, your name, and the book title.
- A soft cover, with the same front as the eBook, plus a spine with title and your name, and a back cover with all or some of the following: a blurb about the book; an endorsement or two (hopefully from someone recognizable); a picture of the illustrious author; and a few words about her.
- A hard cover dust jacket, which adds two fold over flaps to the soft cover and allows the soft cover text to be expanded. The left flap traditionally holds a plot synopsis expanding on the soft cover blurb. The right flap holds the run over of the synopsis text, plus the author picture and a hundred words or less about her. The back of the hard cover may have nothing, a graphic, or some endorsements and perhaps a blurb. Full Story |
