Confessions of a Book Cover Designer
The other day I was in the bookstore looking for a copy of a book I designed a cover for earlier this year. It was produced by a well-known publisher and had a rather impressive promotional budget, so...
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It Should Only Take Five Minutes: Part I of What Designers Do With Their Time
“It shouldn’t take more than five minutes or so. I saw a web designer do it once.” Words that make any print designer cringe. I remember one client I had a few years ago who wanted seven or eight...
View ArticleDesigner Time Sucks: Part 2 of What Designers Do With Their Time
In the first article I discussed the extraordinary length of time it can take to find images, read the license agreement and “clean up” artwork for use on book covers. Another major part of the...
View ArticleResearch: Part 3 of What Designers Do With Their Time
There are many hidden aspects of a designer’s job that take a lot of time. One of the most important, and often most time-consuming, is research for image accuracy. When a client has a book set in WWII...
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There’s Just Something About the Word “Just”
Book Cover Express averages about 70 inquiries a week. Quite often the people who contact us are not sure what they want. They know they want a book cover, but beyond that they don’t know if they want...
View ArticleWhere To Find Us
We’re usually pretty busy designing books (I design covers, Gwen designs interiors, Stephanie does e-Book formatting), or web sites (I do the design for authors, Stephanie does all the...
View ArticleTop 5 Questions I Am Asked About Book Design
1. Why shouldn’t I lay my book out in Word? Word is a word processing program, not designed to format files for press. There are lots of issues that can and do occur when you use Word to lay out a...
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How the Cover Was Made: Part 3
Still a work in progress of sorts, but here’s another cover and all the images it took to create it. I might add this to our new ready-made templates section at eBookCoverExpress. It’s gone through a...
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