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by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

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You Can’t Judge A Book By Its Cover. Or Can You?

 

by Joanna Fitzpatrick, @Fitzpatrick_jo

The long and short of it is: how do you come up with a compelling 5.5″ by 8.5″ book cover suitable for a bookstore window (if you get that lucky) and which is also suitable when reduced  to a postage stamp image digitally displayed online, which is where most books are seen and sold today?

Before I became a writer, I designed LP record jackets. For any one of you who have ever lovingly held an LP in your hand, admired its “artwork,” and then slipped the disc out of its sleeve, placed the turntable needle on the rim of the black vinyl recording and sat down to listen while reading the liner notes on the back of the jacket – let me just say “those were the days.”

When CDs (4.75″ square) and Cassettes (smaller than a smartphone) arrived on the music scene it required a very different creative approach because there was little room for artwork, liner notes or even space to list musicians. And today, just like books, most “albums” are sold digitally by displaying a postage-stamp size cover with limited information.

Okay. So we are aware of the limitations of today's cover artwork, be it book covers or album covers, but there's a lot you can still do to have a terrific cover IF you have an art designer willing to work with you as I do. But be respectful of their time. They have to produce hundreds of covers under deadline. In other words, show diplomacy: speak softly and carry a big stick!

But first you need an engaging book title. My original title for “The Artist Colony” was “The Sketch Box.” I called it “The Sketch Box” because I needed to have something to call it other than “the book” or in my darkest hour “the beast.”

A sketch box is an artist's box carried by plein air painters, like a briefcase, with the art supplies needed to paint outdoors. Only painters would know this and it wouldn't conjure up any intrigue to read it. It's what's called, let's face it, a “bad title.” My novel was an historical mystery not a how-to-paint book. Working titles are often wrong, but we get attached to them, like our darlings that we later edit out of of our books or our editor does it for us.

I knew I had done the right thing when I changed the title to “The Artist Colony” because images  immediately came to mind for a book cover.

My novel is about two sisters who were artists. Ada Belle dies under suspicious circumstances and her sister Sarah becomes an amateur sleuth to find out the truth. I sought online for an image of a messy painter's palette covered in thick, oily globs of glossy black and blood-red paint. I found just such a palette on internet and proudly sent it off to my publisher's art department.

The designers reviewed my ideas but the mock-ups they sent back showed me that they were designing a generic cover based on their concept of what a historical mystery was. Obviously, they hadn't read my book. How could they have the time! Does this sound familiar? The reality of working with a commercial book publisher has to be overcome.

I wrote back and said politely that if they wanted to have an image of two sisters then show them as they really are in my story: stylish Manhattan female artists who would be found at a speakeasy or a bohemian garden party wearing peacock feathered hats, flamenco shawls and stilettos. Not frilly pastel dresses that were worn by the sisters in the movie “Little Women.” Historical, yes, but inaccurate and where was the mystery?

All was not lost. They had come up with another mock-up from one of my other cover ideas that I liked a lot. It was a painting of a seascape that had texture like a painter's canvas. And they'd come up with a stunning 1920s art deco font for the title that fit the time period. Yay! We were getting closer. Only the story's plot was missing. A plot that would sell my book through it's compelling cover.

I gave the designer my elevator pitch:  “The Artist Colony” is a page-turner story of bohemian artists, rum runners, racial unrest, suicide, art forgery, and dead bodies found in a bucolic1920s art colony.

Since they would never read the book anyway, that seemed to be just what they needed. The next seascape mock-up was dramatically darker and foreboding. The only change I then requested was to enlarge and brighten the title font and my name for stronger visibility.  Remember we are talking about a miniature image. The designer did as I asked and voila! we had a cover. At first I thought this will never happen but at the end I was happy.

I'm a big fan of well-designed book covers. I'd love to hear from other writers as to how they designed their book cover or from readers who may have bought a book because of its cover.

And, of course, I would be curious to know if you think my book cover accomplished what I was looking for or not?

 

 

 

JOANNA FITZPATRICK was raised in Hollywood. She started her writing habit by applying her orange fountain pen and a wild imagination to screenplays, which led her early on to produce the film White Lilacs and Pink Champagne. Accepted at Sarah Lawrence College, she wrote her MFA thesis Sha La La: Live for Today about her life as a rock ’n’ roll star’s wife. Her more recent work includes two novels, Katherine Mansfield, Bronze Winner of the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) in Historical Fiction, and The Drummer’s Widow. The Artist Colony is her third book. Presently, FitzPatrick divides her time between a cottage by the sea in Pacific Grove, California and a hameau in rural southern France where she begins all her book projects. Find her online here:

 

Author website: www.joannafitzpatrick.com

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Twitterific Writing Links

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

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Mysteries: Perceived Unreliability as an Element

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

I started reading the cozy mystery master Agatha Christie at a very impressionable age and loved the construction of her books and the characters she created.

There were a couple of elements of her books that especially stuck with me and they both involved unreliability of characters. Reliability, or perceived unreliability, can have a big role in mysteries.

Seemingly Unreliable Sleuths

Agatha Christie was a master at creating sleuths that could be easily underestimated. Miss Marple might come immediately to mind, but she intended her brilliant Hercule Poirot to be, as well…he could behave cartoonish at times and was considered a foreigner by other characters.

These unreliable, easily underestimated sleuths had the ability to fly under the radar. Instead of putting suspects on their guard, they tended to either lull them into confidences (Miss Marple) or just often not seem intimidating at all (Poirot). Suspects then could accidentally drop clues that might point to the murderer or provide gossip that could help better fill in a picture of other suspects.

Seemingly Unreliable Witnesses

This was another element Agatha Christie used in her mysteries. Often there was a character who the other characters would sort of roll their eyes over. They might seem scatterbrained or flighty or hesitant. They would offer a clue or some bit of information that everyone would discount because of who provided it. Unfortunately for the character, they'd usually get murdered because the killer would realize they did know something vital. The character would be eliminated before he or she could offer any other information.

These elements are still useful for mysteries today and provide great ways to uncover more clues in the story. As a reader, do you recognize these seemingly unreliable characters? If you're a mystery writer, have you used them (I have)?

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Twitterific Writing Links

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 61,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers. While you're there, check out the Writer's Digest award-winning Hiveword novel organizer.

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by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

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10-Step Plan to Self-Publish a Book

by Hank Quense, @hanque99

Self-publishing a book is a complex project.  It gets even more complex when you add in the necessary pre-publication marketing tasks.  The best way to proceed with a project like this is by using a detailed plan.  This article describes such a plan in brief.

The mind-map outlines the ten steps in the plan.

 

Step 1: Initial Tasks are about preparation.  Is your manuscript finished? (If it’s a first draft, it is not finished).  If not, now is the time to complete it.  Other tasks include using Beta readers and developing the publishing budget.

Step 2: Professional Help.  The author needs professional help on the project.  The two most essential ones are a cover artist and an editor.  Another possibility is technical help to format the book and/or design the interior.

Step 3: Book Description. The mind-map shows this as a marketing step.  Actually, it’s half marketing and half publishing.  The content developed here will be important in the marketing efforts but it is also required when the manuscript is uploaded to a packager (Step 7). In this step the author concentrates on developing the book’s keywords, the book blurb and the description.  This step will take time and a lot of creative thinking to complete and will require a lot of revising.

Step 4: Getting Ready.  At this point the author does packager research, prepares the manuscript for uploading and decides on need for an ISBN (or not).

Step 5: Initial Marketing Tasks is where the author develops a strategic marketing plan and a marketing budget. A vitally important question is: Who are the book’s customers?  This question isn’t as simple as it may seem at first glance.  Developing a marketing plan requires a lot of thinking and a need to match-funding requirements against the budget.

Step 6: Develop an Author Platform discusses a crucially important aspect of marketing.  The author platform consists of several components such as a website page, Amazon Author Central page, social media accounts and a media kit.

Step 7: Pre-launch Activities is where the author uploads the manuscript and cover files to the packager.  It also establishes the pre-order, if necessary.

Step 8: Getting Book Reviews involves just that: getting the book reviewed.

Step 9: Announce Book availability.  On Launch Day, the author works on the tasks necessary to tell the world (or a small part of it) that the book can now be ordered.

Step 10: Post-launch Marketing is the never-ending tasks the author works on to market the book.

In conclusion: An immediate question that will crop up with authors who aren’t familiar with self-publishing is: How long will such a project take to complete?  That answer depends on a number of variables.  These variables include: how much time can be devoted to the project; how computer competent the author is and how long will the professional help require to complete their work.  With a favorable tail wind, I’d say the project will take four months from the time the manuscript is complete until the book becomes available.

 

This article describes a workable ten step plan.  To use it, the author will need to perform research to flesh out the details in each step.  An alternative is to use the details in my new book, Self-publish a Book in 10 Steps.  It will be available for pre-order on November 15 and will be published on December 1, 2021.  It’s available from Amazon and other book sellers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hank Quense’s website Writers & Authors Resource Center provides material relating to fiction writing, self-publishing and book marketing.

 

 

 

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by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

Facebook has always been a platform that I've struggled with. I rarely use my personal account, but I do maintain my professional account. I know I have a lot of readers using Facebook.

It's also a platform where I could have the ability to reach new readers…something I tried harder to do in 2020.

I chose to go through a service to run my Facebook parties last year.  Marie McNary of A Cozy Experience did a fantastic job. Unfortunately, because of the pandemic, she is taking a break from running Facebook parties (she has kids she's having to homeschool, etc), but I hope she'll eventually come back. A quick search online showed that there are other businesses that offer similar services. You can expect to pay $85–$100. The nice thing about using a service was that they created the images and script for the party and handled the giveaway. Marie posted directly to the Facebook event invite and posted every 5 minutes for an hour. I answered comments and questions that Marie posted.  She posted the giveaway winners to the page the next day.

But this isn't something you have to go through a service for. You can host a Facebook party yourself or join a group of authors doing one. (Joanna Campbell Slan hosted one last March that was a lot of fun. She assigned everyone a different time slot.)

Tips for Running Facebook Parties

Decide on your goal. The goal could be a number of different things: more Facebook followers, more newsletter subscribers, more followers on Amazon or Goodreads, or just visibility in a crowded market.

Plan the party, including images. You can make sure your images are optimized for Facebook by using a free program like Canva.com.

Include giveaways. This is a great way to encourage new readers to discover your books. Be sure to set up parameters for the giveaway…digital copies? Print? Only open to readers in the continental US? It's also important to be aware of Facebook's rules for giveaways.

Include an image of books in your series. Make sure one of the posts you run shows your series or book. It's said that The Marketing Rule of 7 still applies to modern purchases, so you want potential readers to see your covers and get familiar with your books for a possible later purchase.

Include a post including your contact information.  This is a great way to get new followers, subscribers, or for readers to be able to reach out with further questions. Including your website address helps readers find out more about your books.

Keep refreshing the page to see new comments. Facebook doesn't do a good job of refreshing and if you don't manually do it, you may find that you're far behind in responding right off the bat.

Respond to and like comments.  It may be hard to keep up in real time, but if you accidentally miss a couple, you can go back later to reply. The whole exercise is supposed to be a virtual meet-and-greet, though, so eventually responding to and liking comments is important.

Have you thrown Facebook launch parties or other Facebook parties? How did it go? What other promo activities have you tried out recently?

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