When it came to buying a cover for my e-books, I
didn’t want to spend a lot of money. While I would have loved to have original
designs done by cover artists, it simply wasn’t in my budget. I thought about
trying to learn how to do cover designs myself, perhaps using photos I had
taken, but that would be time-consuming, and I already felt I was putting a lot
of time into this project.
Fortunately, I was turned on to a website called
Fiver.com. It’s a crazy, amazing concept where people advertise what service
they will provide for five dollars. Need a resume? They will write one. Need a
book promotion? They’ll tweet news about your book for X amount of days. Need a
book cover? They will design one using covers from the public domain. Of course
the catch is another book could possibly have the same cover as yours, but I
figured it was a chance worth taking.
Other costs can be added to the basic five dollars, such as a higher
resolution, that’s another five, delivery within a shorter time, another five,
and if you want to give the designer a tip (totally optional). You can also
order a print cover, if you are planning on using CreateSpace. I ended up
spending $20 on the first cover and was delighted with the design. I have been
able to keep the same person for all five covers, and each time I’ve been very
satisfied with the product. It’s a fairly easy way to order a book cover, if
you are on a tight budget.
So this was the cover
for the first e-book, and I have to admit, he is pretty cute. I thought it tied
in well with the title of the book, too.
http://tinyurl.com/mvnxkqa
3 comments:
So far I've loved the covers for these e-books. Thanks for the info on the Fiver. I'd heard about them before, but you gave a better idea of how the costs might run.
I love how you took a deep breath and dove into this, Lucy. I'm not sure I'd have the patience. Best of luck.
I have been very pleased with the book covers. I forgot to mention that the last two times I was given a link to browse covers and choose the ones I wanted. That was nice. It was a challenging and rather long, drawn-out project but now I feel very satisfied that I accomplished it. For a while there, though, I had my doubts!
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