How your book cover can stir emotion in potential readers

Our advice to indie authors on book covers remains, as always, that they should be done by professional designers, if at all possible.

That said, having even a general vision for your cover and being familiar with what successful books in you genre look like will benefit you as you work with a designer.

Writers Helping Writers invited one such professional to share how a book cover can evoke the proper emotion in a browsing reader — and draw him or her in.

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