At Life the Universe and Everything symposium, there was a panel on book covers. Any inaccuracies or confusion, it is the fault of the note taker.

• A book cover can misread your audience to pick up and read the title and the byline.
• Remember that when someone sees your book cover online it’s usually about the size of a postage stamp.
• Each John wrote has its own type of book cover as designated by the genre.
• You cover will predetermine the evidence of the quality of your book.
• An author’s name is not important. An accurate description of the plot an illustration of a great scene is important
• The genre is conveyed by color scheme and fonts. Look at the role of books in the store of your genre and see how they are similar.
• The following are reasons to reject the cover.
• Be aware of art that should be on your refrigerator such as a poorly done art photo.
• Stock photos often don’t meet the theme of the book.
• Watch for bad font choice. It needs to be readable and match the theme of the book. X line boring covers three force of book is nothing but will state.
• Bring sexy back
• Be careful of bulletin type layouts with his multiple pictures on the book like a grid.
• Be careful of the central image and then a bunch of other images. You need something that the eye can attach to.
• Don’t put copyright notice or artist credits on the cover.
• Beware of cut-and-paste
• Fonts lagging can misread and irritate the reader.
• Be careful of things of in Photoshop.
• Don’t use a copyright image. One book had the watermark on the cover
• Don’t use a bad photograph
• Beware of layering one image on top of the other some of which may mismatch
• Be aware of layouts images that are not compatible with people. For example, don’t ever put text on the face.
• Be careful of bad digital art.
• Pixilation, a small image doesn’t expand well as influenced by number of pixels.
• Avoid pseudo-humans. Like those that show up on a game
• Check readability of title such as having curving titles
• Avoid typos on the cover as was missing punctuation. Spacing and other obvious grammatical issues
• Don’t try to create art of the words of your book

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