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FEBRUARY QUESTION - If you are an Indie author, do you make your own covers or purchase them? If you publish trad, how much input do you have about what goes on your cover?
MY ANSWER - The only two experiences I've had with self-publishing included my short story "Broken Angel" in 2016 and an anthology called Fly Away in 2022. "Broken Angel" had previously been published in Rope and Wire magazine. In 2016 self-publishing was becoming a craze and I was simply curious about the process, so I used Amazon's Createspace, uploaded a photograph I had recently taken, and then used their suggested formatting for the cover. Fly Away is an anthology put together by the high school writers' group I sponsor. We held an art contest where students submitted potential cover designs. Once we had a winning entry, we again used Amazon's suggested formatting for the cover. Everything else I have published has been through an established press that had their own designers to create the cover.
How about you? If you are an Indie author, do you make your own covers or purchase them? If you publish trad, how much input do you have about what goes on your cover?
8 comments:
I purchase my covers because I have no design skills whatsoever lol!
That's cool that you could run a contest for one of the covers you worked on. I'm like Kyra and would have to hire someone to design my covers.
I think the art cover contest sounds like it was fun.
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That's cool there was a contest for the second book. Gave you lots of options.
Cool that you had a contest with your students for a cover design. I went with a designer on Fiverr for my book. We both decided bloody feathers would be cool...with me envisioning angel feathers The first draft though, the feathers looked like someone slaughtered a chicken. NOT attractive at all.
How cool that you sponsor a high school writer's group, Sylvia! Kudos to you. I'd have to hire a professional. Have a happy February!
The contest idea involving students is cool, Not every writer is an artist, but giving students a chance to be a published artist is great.
I also love the idea of using an art contest for students. Students are an excellent source of free labour. :-)
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