Tuesday, June 13, 2017
This was sweet and so sensitive a topic as this Christian author came to me with a cover that her son done the illustration for. While he did a great job for a 16-year-old, it still has an amateur look to the book cover and had not been making any sales. She at first thought that maybe we could pick up on some of the elements or pieces of her sons’ illustration and while that would have been sweet and honoring to him, it but the art still didn’t look fresh and intriguing to the age group she was trying to attract that was used to beautiful fantasy illustrations.
The author and I had many rounds of layouts to get the right look as she had certain elements in her story that she wanted to be seen: Fairies (without wings or pointy ears), a comet type event, dragonfly lanterns, acorns, and much more but we ended up nixing many layouts that just got too “busy” with elements as I tried to get her to go SIMPLE.
I’ll share some of our “busy” rounds below to give you an idea of our thought process and then the final “Before & After”. Congratulations to her as a large distribution house told her yesterday that it was one of the best covers they had seen in a long time! May the Lord open doors to many sales.
Some layouts from our busy round:
and our final BEFORE & AFTER
Guest blog … Lisa Hainlineis a designer and has been a strong advocate of WHY a cover design makes a difference in sales. She designs under her names Lionsgate Book Design and Lisa Hainline. Knowing “who” you book buying market is will create the “hook” for the design to develop the magnet you want your book to be. Her website is www.Lisahainline.com. Based in California, she’s an active participant on the Author U LinkedIn group. Lisa’s phone is 909-436-9025 and email LHainline2@gmail.com.
Please see my Christian Book Cover Portfolio for more examples of my cover designs and contact me at lhainline2@gmail.com or lisa@lisahainline.com to discuss your project and how we at Lionsgate Book Design can help make your publication gain all the advantage it deserves.
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