{"id":941,"date":"2020-03-17T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-10-25T22:34:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T02:34:40","slug":"five-tips-on-designing-book-covers-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/five-tips-on-designing-book-covers-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Tips on Designing Book Covers for Indie Authors Featuring TerriblyBadBookCovers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI am so excited to have TerriblyBadBookCovers<\/a> on the blog today! Their cover finds have had me in stitches, so I am so happy to learn tips on how to actually make a good cover! Please welcome them to the blog!<\/span>
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\nSo you want to make your own cover for that book baby you\u2019ve been nursing along, and you\u2019re looking for some advice on how to do it well? Great! You\u2019ve come to the right place.<\/span><\/span>
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Tip #1: Don\u2019t.<\/h2>\n
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You heard me: the first tip for designing your own cover for your book is \u201cdon\u2019t do it\u201d \u2013 and I\u2019m not joking. Not to sound overly harsh, but the odds of you having the skillset, eye for design, and tools to execute your vision are slim-to-none. You are an author, not a designer, and though I hate to break it to you I can almost guarantee that if you try to design your own cover, it\u2019s going to be terrible \u2013 or at least unprofessional.<\/div>\n
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Hire a designer \u2013 someone whose portfolio you look at and say \u201cyes, this person knows what they\u2019re doing.\u201d Publishing a book is an investment, and in order to get a good return on it, you need to actually put some funds in to start it up. Hire a professional editor and pay for a professionally-designed book cover \u2013 your book deserves it. \u201cGood enough\u201d should never be good enough.<\/div>\n
But\u2026 if you\u2019re going to ignore Tip #1, at least try to stick with the rest of these suggestions, and maybe you won\u2019t end up featured on my page. ?<\/div>\n

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Tip #2: Use good artwork. Legally.<\/h2>\n
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Now, obviously, this is tied to tip #1, but I can\u2019t tell you how many covers I\u2019ve featured that use either crayon drawings, pixelated photos, or really poorly done pixel-smash photo edits. Don\u2019t have Aunt Janice or your nephew Kevin draw you a picture and call it a day.<\/div>\n
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If you can\u2019t pay a designer or artist to make a good piece for you, there are a lot of inexpensive stock art pieces out there that already have all the editing is done on them, all you need to do is slap your title and name on it. Check out DepositPhotos or iStock, or even freebie sites like Pixabay or Pexels, and make certain that your image is high resolution, and not squished or stretched.<\/div>\n
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Just make sure you have the legal rights to use an image. Art theft is no joke, even if you don\u2019t intend to do it. Always double-check that the image you\u2019re using is either the creation of the person you\u2019re buying it from, and\/or a CC0 image that can be used without purchasing a license. Sites like Flickr are infamous for having reposted and stolen art \u2013 it\u2019s a good practice to reverse image search your photo\/art through something like TinEye to make sure that you\u2019re getting it from a reputable source.<\/div>\n
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Tip #3: Care about your fonts and typography.<\/h2>\n
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Do not use system fonts. This applies most clearly to nightmare fonts like Papyrus, Comic Sans, Algerian, Blackadder, and other overused and abused fonts. But as a general rule of thumb: if it comes pre-installed on your computer, don\u2019t use it. People get weirdly defensive about this, and I swear every discussion on the topic has at least three Needling Nancys going \u201cBut so-and-so used Trajan! Author XYZ has Harrington on his cover and he\u2019s feeding a family five off his book revenue!\u201d<\/div>\n
Good for them. But just because there are exceptions to the rule doesn\u2019t mean that you\u2019re one of them \u2013 better to use a good font than hope that your book will surmount the hurdle of a bad one.<\/div>\n
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On a related note, avoid wild novelty fonts \u2013 you won\u2019t find them on professional covers. Stick with clean, classy serif fonts like Lovelyn or Thirsk or Giveny \u2013 or even Cinzel, though that one is starting to show up too often. If you need something even more clean and modern, a sans-serif like Glacial Indifference, Josefin Sans, or Audrey will get you far. If you can\u2019t afford to purchase a font, sites like FontSquirrel<\/a> are your friend, along with the freebie pages on FontBundles<\/a>, CreativeFabrica<\/a>, etc. (Avoid generic free font sites, as they host stolen content and you run the risk of downloading a side of malware with your free font. Make sure any font you install comes with a commercial license.)<\/div>\n
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And while you can get away with just slapping a non-offensive font on your cover, a good design is going to have a bit more effort put into it. Read a book or a blog or five on typography, and know that professional designers often spend as much (or, from personal experience, sometimes more) time on the text elements as they do on the overall image.<\/div>\n
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Tip #4: Do your best to match genre conventions.<\/h2>\n
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Most (if not all) genres have visual shortcuts that they use in their cover designs that communicate information to the reader before they even pick up the book.<\/div>\n
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–Urban Fantasy<\/a> books use rich jewel tones, front-facing models, glowing magical outlines and elements, and strong (usually serif, though not always) typography.<\/div>\n
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–Thrillers<\/a> often showcase a single (plot specific) item, with bold sans-serif text.<\/div>\n
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–Cozy mysteries<\/a> are usually illustrated with cutesy scenes and often use quirky fonts.<\/div>\n
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Historical<\/a> books have a look. War<\/a> books have a look. Epic fantasy<\/a> is going to look different than fantasy romance<\/a> \u2013 which is then going to look different than billionaire romance<\/a>. Know your genre and what it looks like.<\/div>\n
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If you\u2019re stuck on this, or unsure what books in your genre look like, head down to your local chain bookstore (a physical bookstore, not just Amazon, you want to be looking at the pros) and pick up six or ten books that you could say \u201cIf you like these, you\u2019ll like my book.\u201d See what they have in common \u2013 are they all clean, bold fonts? Do they all use illustrated covers? Do they all have a character on them, and if so how do they show them (full body, face only, looking away, facing the reader, etc\u2026)? Obviously you don\u2019t want to copy other covers, but be aware of what readers are expecting, and use genre conventions as the style guide they are.<\/div>\n
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Tip #5 Get feedback.<\/h2>\n
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And I don\u2019t just mean from Aunt Brenda, Mrs. Kirby from sixth grade art, and your two best friends who would never give you negative feedback. I also don\u2019t mean post to a random Facebook group and hope to find some decent opinions amongst the trolls and the well-meaning-but-clueless commenters. Hopefully, you are cultivating a support network of professional authors who know their stuff (if not, do that!) and these are the best people to ask \u2013 especially if they\u2019re a part of or experienced in your target market.<\/div>\n
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If you have friends who professionally design, you can ask them \u2013 but don\u2019t demand extensive feedback, or for them to walk you through improvements unless you\u2019re willing to pay them for their time. They\u2019re professionals after all. Heck \u2013 send it to me through my Instagram page, and I\u2019ll be more than willing to give you a few unbiased thoughts.<\/div>\n
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And be willing to change. Again: you are an author, not a designer. Just because you love a font or an image or think you absolutely HAVE to have an element\u2026 that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s best for your book.<\/div>\n
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Tip #6: What, an extra tip? ? Sure, I\u2019m feeling generous. Keep your options open.<\/h2>\n
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If you come to a point where you realize you do not have the skillset to do your book justice, but you don\u2019t think you can afford to hire a designer: you still have options. Some designers sell premade covers that are artistically high quality and can simply be customized with your title and name. (This works especially well for genre-fiction writers.) For custom designs, sites like 100 Covers<\/a>, MIBL Art<\/a>, 99 Designs<\/a> and others offer affordable (even cheap) covers that look excellent. If you\u2019re truly desperate, you can even venture into the wastelands of Fiverr, though I\u2019d caution against it.<\/div>\n
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The point is: you deserve a good cover for your book. If you\u2019re going to put in the effort to produce a good novel, don\u2019t let it get ignored because the cover looks like someone blew their nose on it and called that a font.<\/div>\n
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But! If you do, know that you might at the very least get a bit of free promotion when I feature your cover on my Instagram. ?<\/div>\n
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TerriblyBadBookCovers is run by an eldritch being of pure salt and sass. <\/span>?<\/span> I\u2019m an Irish-American designer currently living and working in the continental US, and I keep my TerriblyBadBookCovers Instagram account anonymous because I never want anyone to feel like I\u2019m knocking them down in order to build up my own business. I love to pan bad book covers, but even more I love to chat with authors about their covers in progress and give them some unbiased feedback before they go to press \u2013 every author deserves a chance to make their brainchild as shiny and professional as possible.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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What are some of your favorite book covers? What are some of your least favorite books covers? Have you tried to design a book cover before?<\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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