Learning About Covers

[R. Richard]

I started to write stories and I wanted to just concentrate on writing stories. I found that I wasn't all that happy with the covers that I had generated for my stories.
I tried using just 'text covers' and that didn't work too well.
I then began using stock photos, suitably edited, and that worked a bit better.
Now, I find that my publishers want covers with more detail, more pixels. I have figured out how to do that. However, I now spend a lot of time on covers.
Alas, I wanted to just concentrate on writing stories.

 

[lovecraft68]

I started to write stories and I wanted to just concentrate on writing stories. I found that I wasn't all that happy with the covers that I had generated for my stories.
I tried using just 'text covers' and that didn't work too well.
I then began using stock photos, suitably edited, and that worked a bit better.
Now, I find that my publishers want covers with more detail, more pixels. I have figured out how to do that. However, I now spend a lot of time on covers.
Alas, I wanted to just concentrate on writing stories.

Well I suppose this is one of those things that a publisher would come in handy. Between the covers and formatting and some other things it becomes real work whereas writing is generally the fun part.

For me covers are maybe an hour or so's work with the toughest part being finding the appropriate photo.

Nothing pisses me off more than "mismatched" covers. Like a mother/son story and the woman on the cover is obviously in her early twenties, or the girl is blonde and in the story she is brunette, you'd be surprised how much of that is out there.

Once I find the pic though its fifteen minutes to resize and put the text on.