Quote:
Originally Posted by meeera
As a reader, i think your title is fine (and the other ones were probably fine too). I would however encourage you to learn more about cover typography. To me, yours screams "self-pubbed on the cheap", which isn't a great ad for the writing. Have a look at the typography in some of the other books in your genre (especially the professionally published ones), read around about cover typography - you can get an ok result DIYing with a little learning and thought. (Or of course a better result again paying a professional cover design, which may or may not be within your means.)
|
Thanks for the feedback. I don't have the means to do a professional cover design, so when I saw the amazon cover program (free cover designer which would mean that I wouldn't even have to fiddle with taking a picture myself and fooling with adding text to it) I just went with it. I was hoping that the cover wouldn't hinder readers' thoughts on my novella, but it is good to know that readers will be turned off by a not-so-awesome cover.
And that's the frustrating thing. I think the novella itself is high-quality work, but if a reader doesn't like something like the title or the cover, then they won't read it.