Designing Your Book Cover

Panzer and I have been working on a new ebook cover today. We decided we'd put together a cover for a short story we finished last week.

While looking for an image to use, we came across fiction writer S.M. (Sara) Reine's posts. She has three posts explaining how she put the cover together for her YA novel Six Moon Summer.

Her instructions are: Post 1: Concept, Post 2: The Rough Draft, and Post 3: Revisions, Titles, and Printing. She has samples for each post and explains how and why she did each step. As you finish each post, you can click to the next in the series.

I love the cover for this book! You'll find the instructions at S.M. Reine's blog at Designing Your Book Cover.

Enjoy!

SM Reine: Marketing Ideas for Indies part 2: Adding Your Boo...

I've been looking around for marketing ideas for our soon to be available ebook short story collection.

A search at the Writer's Knowledge Base for "ebook marketing" lead me to fantasy author S.M. Reine's blog. Reine has a great post explaining how to put your ebook cover up at Blogspot (here) for marketing and increased Google search optimization. The results of my efforts using Reine's instructions are at the top of the right-hand sidebar.

You'll find the instructions at SM Reine: Marketing Ideas for Indies part 2: Adding Your Boo...:

This looks like a great way to let readers know the ebook is coming and after it's available to give a direct link to the e-store. Remember: sales is all about marketing.

Now, I just need to get that cover finished. Suggestions?