Disclosure: I don't read romance books in general so I don't have much experience in the genre in knowing what the covers
should look like. I am also not an author or designer so my opinions are not from personal experience, just trying to qualify what I like and why.
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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
Thanks Dazrin. That is a great insight. My books do go across genres. Right now the consistency I'm looking for is basic. Things like: title on the top, name on the bottom. Same font for titles. Same font for my name. And having the covers have a fair amount of open space between the title and name.
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Looking at your covers on Amazon, it seems like your other three novels already are fairly consistent and appropriate for their genre, at least assuming they are all romance books in some way*. They all have a picture of a couple at the top, then the title, another background picture then your name. They could certainly be tweaked to be a little more consistent by having the title sizes be closer to the same size,
Jamie's Gamble seems a little small, and your name could be more consistent in location/size (but color should be light or dark depending on the images used as background). If you are keeping both pictures I certainly wouldn't have them adjacent to each other with the title above, too easy to mess that up and make it look muddled.
For fonts, I agree that having your name be in the same font and the same location/size makes a lot of sense and the font you are using goes well with the elaborate title fonts in the romance books and with the simple font used for the thriller/suspense book (new version). Beyond that, I don't think I would want to have the fonts be the same, especially across genres. If all three of your romance books had the same font for the titles I would be much more inclined to think they were part of series. Having them in the same location and approximately the same overall size doesn't make me take that leap. For a series I would certainly keep font and color palettes the same or complimentary but for stand-alone books that seems like too much.
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Man of God, since it is suspense/thriller instead of romance, having the title up higher and using one larger picture (not as detailed as the romance titles) in the middle with a limited, bolder color palette makes more sense. If the overall space for the title is kept consistent with the others and the font/size/location you use for your name is consistent it should still look like it is from the same family as the others.
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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
Thanks. I agree that the green has to go (in my name). I'm thinking light blue there. I suppose I don't need to be too concerned about how the title looks in ereaders though, right? I mean, in a perfect world the cover would look great in color and in an ereader, but once it's in the ereader, well, they can remember what the cover looked like. (Just kidding.)
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Well, for anything on
my e-readers you don't need to worry about how the cover looks once it gets there.
It is an interesting question though, I wonder how many people use a cover view to browse on their reader vs a list view? Even if a list is prevalent it is probably not prevalent enough to ignore small greyscale covers. Interesting thought though and would certainly make some things easier.
Also, GrannyGrump may have a better reason why the green doesn't work. I know it bugs me but saying why is less clear.
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