Peek Behind the Screen: How We Come Up with Book Cover Designs (an Encore)

by Kirsten Weiss ~ While book cover design is certainly not the most stressful part of the publishing process, it has its quirks. A good cover doesn’t tell the story, but it does need to do three things:

Grab the reader’s attention and make them curious about the story.Tell the reader what type of story they’re buying – funny mystery, spooky suspense, lighthearted romance. And this information needs to be easy to identify when the reader is looking at a thumbnail sized image.

That said, I’...