Case study: When a book's cover doesn't fit its genre

Posted on 03/20/2020 at 03:16 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Authors are advised to make sure that their book covers conform to genre expectations. And when a friend told Lynne...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Cover design, Marketing

First book? Don't make these five mistakes

Posted on 02/25/2020 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Happy Mardi Gras! If you’re going out to make poor decisions tonight — and we’re not judging — let them...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Cover design, Dave Chesson (the Kindlepreneur), Email newsletter, Keywords

Need a free graphic-design suite? David Gaughran has you covered

Posted on 01/17/2020 at 10:45 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

David Gaughran has a roundup of his favorite free graphic-design tools for authors, but if you already use and love...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Cover design, David Gaughran, Design, Technology

The Book Designer's best advice from 2019

Posted on 01/12/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

It’s hard — okay, make that downright near impossible — to make sure you don’t miss anything of value when...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Cover design, Marketing, Social media and websites, The Book Designer, The business of writing

What to look for when updating your backlist

Posted on 11/04/2019 at 11:35 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Sure, spring cleaning has a nice ring to it, but you can — and should — freshen up your backlist...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Blurbs, Cover design, Editing

What would you do differently before publishing your first book?

Posted on 09/29/2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Unless one of you is holding out on the world, none of us can go back in time and fix...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Cover design, Dave Chesson (the Kindlepreneur), Marketing, Reader reviews

How a low-quality cover will hurt your book

Posted on 09/25/2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

We wouldn’t blame you if you were sick unto death of hearing lectures about your book cover. But if you...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Cover design, The Book Designer

Write a brief for your book cover designer

Posted on 09/08/2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Every post on cover design we find seems to have a new pearl of wisdom, in addition to the ones...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Cover design, Joanna Penn

Cover considerations: Remember, there'll be a thumbnail version

Posted on 08/29/2019 at 11:19 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

David Kudler has a good primer on what your book cover needs on The Book Designer, with a special bonus...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Cover design, The Book Designer

The cost of publishing a book

Posted on 08/08/2019 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

We’ve been bidding out work on our first home, which was built in the 1920s. Needless to say, we enter...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Cover design, Editing, Marketing, The business of writing