the book out there in general. Do not, and I say this with a warm heart and advisory eye, put your entire budget into pretty chapter images and a cover that costs more than your PR budget. I thankfully learned this quickly.
So, after some quiet deliberation, I decided I would band together what little creative knowledge I had, and do what I could to save myself money.
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It’s one of the most exciting pieces of designing a book, finally putting your story into a brief snippet of colour and image… if you can afford to be so picky, that is.
INDIE INK: COVER DESIGN
could instruct on.
Of course, there are the more reasonable quarters of the book design market, where beautiful images are made with professionalism and afford-ism. Though I stumbled upon a darker part of the community when I first came to make my first novel, and this was what I found.
It was outrageously expensive, and as a new author in a community with already so many other competitors, you want to spend as little money as possible on the smaller aspects of publishing, and save your spends for the marketing and PR—getting the book out there in general. Do not, and I say this with a warm heart and advisory eye, put your entire budget into pretty chapter images and a cover that costs more than your PR budget. I thankfully learned this quickly.
So, after some quiet deliberation, I decided I would band together what little creative knowledge I had, and do what I could to save myself money.
HEIDI HOPKINS IS A
2018 DEBUT AUTHOR.
HER FIRST BOOK, SIGNED
BY A SOLDIER WAS RELEASED
IN SEPTEMBER. HER GOAL
FOR 2019 IS TO PUBLISH
12 BOOKS -
ONE FOR EVERY
MONTH.