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Aspiring Writers Info: Can you sell a book by its cover? Mais oui --
Over at the How to Write Shop. Lori Devoti talks about her experiences with changing around covers to fit the audience she wants to reach. Her advice? Take off the author and editor hat and put on the ad hat. You need to sell the sizzle, not the steak.
Maybe this is what I need to do -- change the covers for my Nualas. But to what?
Maybe this is what I need to do -- change the covers for my Nualas. But to what?
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Maybe fiddle with the fonts or see if a closer-up shot somewhere would work better? Especially previewing at small size, because usually you come across e-book covers first in the smallest version on Amazon or other e-book stores, before people click for more when they're intrigued.
Did you read the various ruminations on how the Andrews Team decided on the current cover of Silver Shark - with input by their agency/publisher? I read them via LJ Feed, so I followed along there.
And how Ilona fiddled until she got Loretta Chase's Captives of the Night cover without any associations to other regency writers...
Even Devoti says she eventually paid a professional to make her cover.
Analysis time.
Go wide .. what ALL various subgenre readers can you think of?
Rattle those off, first, before zooming back-out to notice the bigger pool of less distinct readers that might be jazzed.
Re: Analysis time.