Dreaming up Sevia (Creating a Cover)

Writing isn’t always easy, but sooner or later, the story will come. With ruthless editing, I can achieve (or get close enough) to the ideal I saw in my head. The challenge I wasn’t expecting was the cover. A good book cover should be unique, but not so unique that it sticks out like a sore thumb among the other covers in its genre. Not only images, but color schemes, and even fonts should should work together to tell prospective readers what kind of book it is.

A few minutes’ Internet browsing on the subject taught me everything I really needed to know, but implementing it was a different story. I considered and rejected at least six cover designs before setting on one that seemed to work. However, even this process was not nearly as time-consuming as it might have been, because I used the excellent (and free) graphic design site, Canva.com, to create the cover. I uploaded photos from Pixabay.com, a great online library of copyright-free photos. So that’s the short story of how I designed a fairly good cover on a zero-dollar budget.