Cover design sounds easy. Cover design looks easy. Why, I just need to use a photo and stick a title and my name on it. Done. Except that... I don't want my cover to actually look "homemade". I don't want my novel to scream at potential reader "Hey, I'm a self-published novel and the author didn't want to spend money on the cover so she did...this!"
I've got a cover for my novel which I hope doesn't look to amateurish. I'm still playing around with fonts and colours. It's not my dream cover (which would have been a very ambitious, luxurious, lavish work of art, mostly abstract, with hints to the historical period my novel is set in and subtle reminders of the plot...) but I think it's ok (sort of). At times I think it's ok, at others I'm more like...this is terrible (*sob*)! But I've shown it to some people, who told me it was ok (were they being kind?). And anyway, my family and friends seem to actually expect me to make the cover myself ("of course, you'll be drawing the cover, won't you?"). So, I don't have a choice, do I?
There'll be a big cover release, probably in October, on this blog, Facebook (www.facebook.com/maybermont) and Instagram (www.instagram.com/may_bermont). My official author website will go live at the same time.
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