What Do the Best-Selling Books Have in Common? Check the Cover
Despite the well known old cliche "Never judge a book by its cover", people do.
Almost always, unless the author is already established and very well known.
For the vast majority of authors, both new and those with years of experience, a good looking book cover is essential.
The first question you may ask is, "Well these well known authors have publishing houses behind them and big budgets to pay top artists" True, but there are several options open to you to get an excellent book cover produced for your latest work.
1) Hire an artist.
For every talented writer struggling to become well known there is a talented artist facing the same struggle.
There are some very talented people out there who produce some amazing artwork, which to be honest, is actually far better than some of the so called mainstream artists work that is in the public eye.
These artists have a passion for their work and a lot are prepared to produce either custom work or license out some of their existing portfolio for book covers.
An established artist may charge thousands for a custom book cover product.
An artist that is trying to break through may produce a high quality piece for anywhere from a hundred dollars and upwards.
2) Stock pictures.
There are plenty of sites on the internet that sell royalty free pictures that, in most cases, you can use to create your own book cover.
There are pictures from professional and amateur photographers available for a few dollars under a royalty free license.
Some sites will also carry artwork pieces that can be used for book covers under similar license terms.
3) Create your own.
Ok, now this may sound daunting to most of you.
But consider this before backing away from this option.
There are plenty of pieces of software around these days that can be used to either create artwork or modify photographs.
If you are very artistically talented then the art programs available today have huge amounts of features that can be used to create some amazing artwork for a book cover or any other project such as promotional flyers for your book.
It would also be very easy for you to go out and take some of your own pictures, use a photograph modification software to alter the pictures to your liking and create your cover.
Each of these topics on book cover creation have a lot more aspects and information to consider To learn more about each of these topics in detail read my book cover design article
Almost always, unless the author is already established and very well known.
For the vast majority of authors, both new and those with years of experience, a good looking book cover is essential.
The first question you may ask is, "Well these well known authors have publishing houses behind them and big budgets to pay top artists" True, but there are several options open to you to get an excellent book cover produced for your latest work.
1) Hire an artist.
For every talented writer struggling to become well known there is a talented artist facing the same struggle.
There are some very talented people out there who produce some amazing artwork, which to be honest, is actually far better than some of the so called mainstream artists work that is in the public eye.
These artists have a passion for their work and a lot are prepared to produce either custom work or license out some of their existing portfolio for book covers.
An established artist may charge thousands for a custom book cover product.
An artist that is trying to break through may produce a high quality piece for anywhere from a hundred dollars and upwards.
2) Stock pictures.
There are plenty of sites on the internet that sell royalty free pictures that, in most cases, you can use to create your own book cover.
There are pictures from professional and amateur photographers available for a few dollars under a royalty free license.
Some sites will also carry artwork pieces that can be used for book covers under similar license terms.
3) Create your own.
Ok, now this may sound daunting to most of you.
But consider this before backing away from this option.
There are plenty of pieces of software around these days that can be used to either create artwork or modify photographs.
If you are very artistically talented then the art programs available today have huge amounts of features that can be used to create some amazing artwork for a book cover or any other project such as promotional flyers for your book.
It would also be very easy for you to go out and take some of your own pictures, use a photograph modification software to alter the pictures to your liking and create your cover.
Each of these topics on book cover creation have a lot more aspects and information to consider To learn more about each of these topics in detail read my book cover design article
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