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Making a Book Cover
There are so many details to take care of when finishing up a book. It’s so easy to get caught up in the editing and forget them.
I need to do one final edit of “Mistaken Promises,” the third Hazel Whitmore book. The last time through had more changes than I had anticipated. This is two or three days work.
In the meantime I am taking care of details. Hazel likes to cook and there are fourteen different recipes mentioned. I am trying to get all of them done. The pile of cookbooks around my computer gets in the way and one recipe still eludes me.
Then there are the special pages such as title, copyright, author’s notes etc.
And there is the cover. Books do have covers.
Where do I find a cover for “Mistaken Promises”?
This is an upper middle grade book. Most of these books have the main characters on the covers. I can’t draw people who look like people.
At the moment my budget will not allow me to hire an artist. The money is getting “My Ozark Home” printed plus more copies of “Exploring the Ozark Hills.”
In the book Hazel finally gets her Buff Orpington chickens. This is her big foray into rural living. The chickens do play a part in the book’s plot.
More important: I can draw a chicken. I even have a Buff Orpington hen to use as a model. She doesn’t agree, but I can be persistent.
So, the cover will have a chicken on the cover. Except no one knows why the chicken is there unless they read the book.
Another recurring aspect of the plot is the notes Hazel finds in her school locker and on Facebook. “You will pay. I promise you, YOU will pay.” The words change; the menace doesn't.
The hen can be holding a note in her beak. Maybe she can be standing on another note.
And, maybe, if I am lucky, this cover will pique a reader’s interest enough to read my book.
I need to do one final edit of “Mistaken Promises,” the third Hazel Whitmore book. The last time through had more changes than I had anticipated. This is two or three days work.
In the meantime I am taking care of details. Hazel likes to cook and there are fourteen different recipes mentioned. I am trying to get all of them done. The pile of cookbooks around my computer gets in the way and one recipe still eludes me.
Then there are the special pages such as title, copyright, author’s notes etc.
And there is the cover. Books do have covers.
Where do I find a cover for “Mistaken Promises”?
This is an upper middle grade book. Most of these books have the main characters on the covers. I can’t draw people who look like people.
At the moment my budget will not allow me to hire an artist. The money is getting “My Ozark Home” printed plus more copies of “Exploring the Ozark Hills.”
In the book Hazel finally gets her Buff Orpington chickens. This is her big foray into rural living. The chickens do play a part in the book’s plot.
More important: I can draw a chicken. I even have a Buff Orpington hen to use as a model. She doesn’t agree, but I can be persistent.
So, the cover will have a chicken on the cover. Except no one knows why the chicken is there unless they read the book.
Another recurring aspect of the plot is the notes Hazel finds in her school locker and on Facebook. “You will pay. I promise you, YOU will pay.” The words change; the menace doesn't.
The hen can be holding a note in her beak. Maybe she can be standing on another note.
And, maybe, if I am lucky, this cover will pique a reader’s interest enough to read my book.
