As a final wrap to the three month tour of Amanda Tero's Tales of Faith series, Amanda shares with us how she does her own cover designs (this lady is talented! :) ).
Interested in learning more about the Tales of Faith series? Watch for my personal review of Amanda's Robin Hood retelling, "Protecting the Poor" coming up next week!
Guest post by Amanda Tero
How often do you look at a book cover and consider the
process it took to get to the shelves? Well, if you’re me, you analyze it. I am
an avid cover lover. Sometimes I go to a bookstore just to drool over the cover
designs (okay, so “drool” might not be the best verb…).
It’s easy to sit back and admire covers (or—*ahem* if you’re
me—pick them apart and critique them while you admire them…). But covers have
to come from somewhere. And, if you’re a broke Indie author like me, you can’t
afford top-notch designs, so you do with what you’ve got and have fun playing around with designs until you find that perfect fit.
Before “Befriending the Beast” was even as series, I had
just one book I was looking at. And I played with a few different ideas. I’m
kicking myself now for not saving those ideas, but from what I remember, I had
a main general idea and for once, stuck with that idea. I did play around with having
a slightly different layout, such as…
But, I soon figured out that simple is better and chose the
design I have today.
As soon as I realized “Befriending the Beast” was morphing
into a series, I knew one thing: cover design was going to be easy from here on
out. Maybe boring in my creativity field, but easy. ;)
Book Three
The first thing I knew about "Protecting the Poor" was that its color would be green (I mean, Robin Hood screams green!). The hardest thing with this cover was finding the perfect background image for the bottom. This was the first idea I had...
I've got to show the back covers. I mean, I spent just as much time on the back cover. And they're just as much fun to analyze as the fronts!
Are you a designer?
Have you ever designed a cover? If so, please comment with a link so I can view it. What is your favorite cover? Share the title and author.
About the Tour
The clock is ticking until the release of “Protecting
the Poor!” This is the third and final month of Tales of Faith
3-month tour. We’ve spent a month on “Befriending the Beast,” a month on “The Secret Slipper,” and now, are looking
at a month digging into “Protecting the Poor”—the history behind it,
behind-the-scenes of writing and editing, the messages threaded through it, and
more. Amanda will link to
each blog on With a Joyful Noise, so check in every week and see
what blogs have a special Tales of Faith feature!
About Amanda
Amanda
Tero began her love for words at a young age—reading anything she could get her
hands on and penning short stories as young as age eight. Since graduation, she
has honed her writing skills by dedicated practice and study of the writing
craft. She began her journey of publication with a few short stories that she
had written for her sisters and continued to add to her collection with other
short stories, novellas, and novels. It is her utmost desire to write that
which not only pleases her Lord and Savior, but also draws the reader into a
deeper relationship with Jesus Christ.
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