Our suggestion: give that muse a little nudge and a suggestive wink.
Or in the worst case, your waiting may be altogether in vain. This is not to contest the fact that we tend to get the best ideas when we least expect them, but waiting for the proverbial muse to kiss you on the forehead may take a bit longer than your publisher is comfortable with. You don’t even have to be a designer to make the design yourself, but more on that later. You don’t have to be a professional designer to have a good idea and to make a good book cover, but you also shouldn’t wait endless months for inspiration to hit you out of nowhere. Making a book design, just like any other creative work, starts with an idea. Instead, we boiled it all down into this bite-sized guide with all the basics you need to be aware of, so you can jump right into it and create a book cover today. And with more than 2.2 million books published every year worldwide, we have our work cut out for us.Īn entire book would probably be full by the time we covered all that goes into designing book covers, and we didn’t want to do that (imagine the pressure we’d put on ourselves to come up with the cover for it). We might as well accept the truth in the truisms, and put more effort into designing our book covers to get the contents noticed.
The reality is if you want to get people to read your book that one second can mean the difference between a bestseller and a flop. We all judge, at least for a second, which is just a more honest way of saying that first impressions count–another phrase that would be nice to monetize somehow. There’s a very good reason everyone insists, though.
If you had a dollar for each time you heard “you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover”, you’d probably be a millionaire by now.
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