Easy & Effective Book Cover Designs For Every Genre By Derek Murphy
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
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Simple examples you can use for a book cover that sells, using three basic layouts. One scene + one character or humanizing element + one or two main colors for mood. Title font matches genre; author name and subtext are a simple serif or sans serif.
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Hey there - I'm Derek Murphy. I'm a fine artist who became a book cover designer, then started writing young adult scifi and fantasy. I've spent almost 20 years living abroad, have a PhD in comparative literature (revolutionary politics in Paradise Lost), and have been featured in CNN for renting castles to use as writing retreats. Although I'm not working with clients anymore, I've built a ton of resources to help indie authors write, design and publish bestselling books.
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Your videos are helping me right now. I was overwhelmed looking at all the creative, artistic and dare I say... unique drawings. You just made me realize (as I was struggling with how to do my own eBook cover- all alone with no knowledge whatsoever but my creativity to guide me, lol) that there is a certain type of cover for the genres. I never realized until I was already into about 5 of your videos! WOW, I am definitely *not* going with a drawing/artsy/unique/one-of-a-kind look. You've shamed me into sober thinking (not being drunk on my own creative juice) and understanding some of the gimmicks. I'll keep watching!
thanks!
About that book cover that says Fallen, by Lauren Kate at 5:12 . I was super into young adult when I read this book years ago. It was popular only because of how bad it was. As I was doing research I discovered that one of the reasons people were so pissed is because the cover didn't match a single scene in the book, and yet the cover was the only reason they picked it up. Now whenever I think of book covers, this is the image that pops up in my head. And I laugh.
Yes, I also thought the cover doesn't match the story. But... they have to get the book before the story matters.
I like ones that have an item that is an essential plot point in fiction covers
I have to watch ALL your videos. So informative, thank you!
Thanks for this advice! I'm looking to get a cover for a Supernatural Thriller and I'm thinking I'll aim for the "Scene/Setting with small protagonist". The major story moments are set in the woods behind a small town, so I'll find a way to incorporate my protagonist (a guitar chick with tattoos/dreads) into such a scene.
sorry for the 4 year late reply :) hope it went well.
I have learned more about self publishing from you than many others. You present your information in very precise ways with examples that are easily understood. I'm thinking of changing my title, the book discription, and cover for my first book of a trilogy and also how I launch it. Thanks so much.
thanks so much!
You should write a "how to book" for dummies :'v i would buy it right away. QwQ God bless your work
Meganeko I second this
Motion passed lol
What about children's or juvenile, graphic, novels or animation book covers?
thanks a lot this really helped me
The smacking in. EVEY. FRIKING. SENTENCE!
now that's all I can hear thanks!
are these design principles basicallly applicable to technical nonfiction too?
nonfiction is a bit different but usually simpler. nonfiction authors often try to cram too much text and added benefits in that make it overwhelming when it should be clean
@@DerekMurphycreativindie Thanks Derek; since writing that I found some good videos about non-fiction cover design. Yeah, NF needs big ol title it's all about the text. I think my covers are ok, at least are good enough. Yours are really beautiful, very well done, but in non fiction that seems to be much less important.
Gimp is free and it has similar things to Photoshop
But it takes longer to master GIMP.
I've watched part of another of your videos on covers, but I feel like I'm getting some conflicting messages. You mentioned one color scheme for the cover, but I thought in another video you had talked about the importance of color contrasts. You mention the importance of a humanizing element, but in another video you showed Wool as a good cover example, but I dont remember a humanizing element in it. Could you clarify? For someone trying to learn what makes a cover work, it kind of muddies the water. At least for me!
Yes ;)
do you think these points still hold true today?
yes. cover designs have trends for each genre but the main rules haven't changed at all. Trad pub does different things to stand out in bookshelves from the indie authors... but that's also why trad books don't sell as well online or on amazon. Trad books sell by reputation, indie books sell by cover.
@@DerekMurphycreativindie I appreciate your response. I’m currently playing around with your templates and trying to navigate. It is hard but can’t imagine how much more difficult it would be if I didn’t have your templates. Thank you for your hard work. It is appreciated.
I got a letter from eber and wein poetry contest.i won. is this real?
The truth is, if you're famous anything sells.
yup! and if you aren't famous, your cover has to do all the work.
Hi Derek! Why we should use always and Humanizing element for the cover in any genre? I saw that in AMazon most of self help, spiritual and inner knowledge books do not have any humanizing cover image! That is the genre that I write about and I would like to know what you think about it
That's mostly for fiction... for nonfiction you don't need it because it's not character based.... focus on the mood and emotion with colors and images.
Thanks a lot for your answer! The point is that I wrote a book that talk about spiritual topic, importance to know our self and find inside the truth that bring us to know what really is God, BUT the book is fully based on a open conversation between two persons that meet each other on the bench of bus station during 5 days and talk each other. So I'm a bit confused over what I should really do for the cover
If you have any idea or opinion about that I would really appresciate it!!! Thanks
Nice
So you don't like DAW sf Books, Ballantine Science Fiction, ACE book, Pyramid Science Fiction or Pinnacle Books covers? I mean those are what I think of when I think good cover art. Honestly the modern era of book covers is exactly as you describe, boring, single people, same effects every time, some vague background grabbed from stock photos and then bull-shited through to say the rose is"symbolic." I find this depressing and to see you saying this is the right way to go about it... Man, that's disappointing.
1. They're dated, so they're fine if you're targeting an older audience.
2. Custom illustration is expensive, which means, most of the time, authors will try and get stuck with something that doesn't sell the book. Since I try to help authors DIY design, which is already fraught with challenges, this helps them avoid common problems.
3. In 2017, there are some amazing new designers/illustrators that are making killer covers for cheap in the scifi/fantasy department, so you get classic looking covers with a modern feel - that's ideal, if you can find an illustrator like that. And even so it'll cost at least a few hundred bucks.
Plus, all of those are Trad Pub. The rules are different. Trad pub doesn't rely on the covers, whereas Indies have to.