Never Judge a Book by Its Cover ..., Unless It's Mine, In Which Case, You Better Judge It To Be Awesome!
Drum Roll, Please ....
I finally have a cover! YAY!
Actually, I've had the cover for quite some time, but I signed up for a “cover reveal” with a blog, and they set the reveal date, so there ya have it! It was very hard keeping it a secret.
My cover was designed by the AMAZING Najla Qamber at http://www.najlaqamberdesigns.com/. If you haven't seen her work, GO CHECK IT OUT RIGHT NOW! The only part I had in it was the font for the title, and the woman. Everything else, including the tag-line, was all Najla. Genius. I feel unworthy of such a nice cover. I think it fits the book PERFECTLY, down to the little “S” on his cufflink. S-for-Satan, of course.
I go to shutterstock.com a lot for inspiration. It's amazing how much a picture can inspire me. Sometime while I was writing the book, I can't remember when, I came across the picture of the girl. I liked it because it's interesting and she is pretty, but I didn't think much about it at the time. She wasn't Tate – her face was too round, and her eyes are blue. I imagine Tate to have a more narrow face, and she has dark brown eyes.
But as I sent off my ideas for the cover, I kept going back to that picture of the girl. I began to associate it with the book. Whenever I thought of the cover, I thought of that girl. So I sent it to Najla, and told her that picture captured how I felt about the book, but I didn't know if it would work.
Naj's response? “Oh, I'll make it work.”
The picture of the girl was a head shot, only down to the neck. Not a problem! Najla reduced the image's size, gave her some shoulders, and then layered her on top of the man. Can't even tell! It looks like one picture.
Magic.
I am absolutely hopeless when it comes to picture manipulation. I can barely edit in Paint on Microsoft. I can barely draw a stick figure. It's vair sad. Thank god graphic designers exist, or else I'd be lost!
So thank you to Najla, to the amazing cover.
Thank you to Forever Me Romance book blog, http://forevermeromance.blogspot.com.au/, for setting up my cover reveal and all my other promo stuff. Awesome job with all the html. Another thing I'm helpless at!
And thank you to all the blogs who signed up for the reveal, it means a lot. Being an indie author is hard work. Being a new, unknown indie author? Even harder. It's like chucking pebbles into the ocean – only 80 million other people have the same idea.
I just hope some of my waves make it to shore!
To keep up to date on this stuff, head to my facebook page:
facebook.com/stylofantomeauthor
And hey, someone awesome even started a street team for me! For reals! If interested in following or joing, go to my page and hit me up!
I finally have a cover! YAY!
Actually, I've had the cover for quite some time, but I signed up for a “cover reveal” with a blog, and they set the reveal date, so there ya have it! It was very hard keeping it a secret.
My cover was designed by the AMAZING Najla Qamber at http://www.najlaqamberdesigns.com/. If you haven't seen her work, GO CHECK IT OUT RIGHT NOW! The only part I had in it was the font for the title, and the woman. Everything else, including the tag-line, was all Najla. Genius. I feel unworthy of such a nice cover. I think it fits the book PERFECTLY, down to the little “S” on his cufflink. S-for-Satan, of course.
I go to shutterstock.com a lot for inspiration. It's amazing how much a picture can inspire me. Sometime while I was writing the book, I can't remember when, I came across the picture of the girl. I liked it because it's interesting and she is pretty, but I didn't think much about it at the time. She wasn't Tate – her face was too round, and her eyes are blue. I imagine Tate to have a more narrow face, and she has dark brown eyes.
But as I sent off my ideas for the cover, I kept going back to that picture of the girl. I began to associate it with the book. Whenever I thought of the cover, I thought of that girl. So I sent it to Najla, and told her that picture captured how I felt about the book, but I didn't know if it would work.
Naj's response? “Oh, I'll make it work.”
The picture of the girl was a head shot, only down to the neck. Not a problem! Najla reduced the image's size, gave her some shoulders, and then layered her on top of the man. Can't even tell! It looks like one picture.
Magic.
I am absolutely hopeless when it comes to picture manipulation. I can barely edit in Paint on Microsoft. I can barely draw a stick figure. It's vair sad. Thank god graphic designers exist, or else I'd be lost!
So thank you to Najla, to the amazing cover.
Thank you to Forever Me Romance book blog, http://forevermeromance.blogspot.com.au/, for setting up my cover reveal and all my other promo stuff. Awesome job with all the html. Another thing I'm helpless at!
And thank you to all the blogs who signed up for the reveal, it means a lot. Being an indie author is hard work. Being a new, unknown indie author? Even harder. It's like chucking pebbles into the ocean – only 80 million other people have the same idea.
I just hope some of my waves make it to shore!
To keep up to date on this stuff, head to my facebook page:
facebook.com/stylofantomeauthor
And hey, someone awesome even started a street team for me! For reals! If interested in following or joing, go to my page and hit me up!
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