Quick Tip Involving Covers
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
Here’s a quick reminder for those of you who get book covers from your designers before working on the book. Make sure, before the paperback version goes live, that the back cover copy is still accurate. Sometimes even the ebook cover might need adjusting.
Why be in this situation to begin with? For me, I’ve got to get on my cover designer’s schedule early or else my releases won’t launch in time. I usually get books covered three months prior to even starting the draft.
Early book cover design works great most of the time. It definitely helps me stay on schedule. But I can run into problems if I decide to change a character’s name, the name of the town (which happened for a new series I wrote), or the series name (new series issue, again).
Although I think we’re all programmed to edit the manuscript text and the book descriptions we upload to retail portals like KDP and Draft2Digital, it might be easier to forget to check the covers that were designed months earlier.
I do have to pay my designer for changes for finished covers, but it’s well worth it to keep readers from being confused. And I’ve had to change at least two covers.
That’s my tip of the day. :) Do you have any helpful reminders for writers that you’ve run across?
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