Design theory

August 17, 2022

16 Reasons Your Self-Published Book Cover Is Terrible

Have you searched Amazon for something to read and been smacked in the face by badly Photoshopped covers? Seen book covers so muddy they're an indistinguishable mess? Wondered if your favorite author is being held hostage by an evil book cover designer?
June 22, 2015

Designing a Series Look: Zoe Chant Part II

In last week's post, I talked about being commissioned to create a cover template for Zoe Chant's paranormal shifter romances, her requirements, and researching her genre. As a prolific writer, she would be using several designers to create her covers, and needed a template that she could give to each designer to make sure that all her books looked like Zoe Chant books.