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BOOK COVER DESIGN: Series 2, Part 7—”Searching for Sound” cover

05/01/201707/10/2017 Write Well, Write To Sell 288 Views 0 Comments book cover design, dave schulz, indie publishing, rick taubold, self-publishing

From Rick: As I promised last time, this post will discuss how the cover for Dave Schulz’s novel Searching for Sound was designed and show that you don’t need to be a graphic designer (which I’m not) to be able

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BOOK COVER DESIGN: Series 2, Part 6—Graphic design basics

04/24/2017 Write Well, Write To Sell 339 Views 0 Comments book cover design, graphic design basics, rick taubold, self-publishing

From Rick: A couple of weeks ago, one of my writer friends who has some graphic design experience made the following observation: “With respect to designing covers, it seems at some point the basic elements of good graphic design ought

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BOOK COVER DESIGN: Series 2, Part 5—Titles and covers

04/10/2017 Write Well, Write To Sell 324 Views 0 Comments book cover design, book titles, novel writing, rick taubold

From Rick: I’m going to deviate a bit from actual cover design in this post, although what I have to say is very relevant to the cover’s design. Two weeks ago, Scott discussed the importance of choosing a good title

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BOOK COVER DESIGN: Series 2, Part 4

03/20/201703/20/2017 Write Well, Write To Sell 264 Views 0 Comments book cover design, indie publishing, rick taubold, self-publishing

From Rick: In posts 2 and 3 in this series, I shared some thoughts and the motivations, for the design and redesign of the cover for Scott’s Martyr’s Inferno. I’m not done with that one, but I haven’t had more

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BOOK COVER DESIGN: Series 2, Part 3

03/07/201703/19/2017 Write Well, Write To Sell 262 Views 0 Comments book cover design, novel writing, rick taubold, scott gamboe, self-publishing

For the next week, Punctuation For Fiction Writers is on sale at Smashwords and Amazon. From Rick: Last time, I showed you the first cover I designed for Scott’s Martyr’s Inferno and told the story of how it came about.

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BOOK COVER DESIGN: Series 2, Part 2

02/27/201703/26/2017 Write Well, Write To Sell 279 Views 0 Comments book cover design, indie publishing, rick taubold, scott gamboe, self-publishing

From Rick: As I told you in part 1, professional cover designers (in the same vein as some editors), would have you believe that lowly individuals like you and me can’t and shouldn’t design our own covers (or edit our

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Revisiting an old post

02/21/201702/21/2017 Write Well, Write To Sell 293 Views 0 Comments book cover design, kevin mcgill, rick taubold

From Rick: I’ll be continuing my blog on Cover Design next week (I didn’t get it done in time for this week), but I wanted to share something relevant to that topic. I was revisiting an old Guest Post from

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BOOK COVER DESIGN: Series 2, Part 1

02/13/201703/19/2017 Write Well, Write To Sell 404 Views 2 Comments book cover design, book marketing, book promotion, indie publishing, rick taubold, self-publishing

Two years ago, I did a four-part series on this topic. I’ve learned a lot since then, and at least a couple of things have changed in that time. One change is that I’m seeing more advertising from cover designers,

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Self-Publishing 

Miscellaneous advice on self-publishing

09/12/2016 Write Well, Write To Sell 268 Views 0 Comments book cover design, editing, indie publishing, publishing contracts, rick taubold, self-publishing, traditional publishing

From Rick: This week going to give you some tidbits of advice and a couple of worthwhile articles to read. USING SONG LYRICS IN YOUR BOOK—an important reminder— You cannot—I repeat you can NOT—use song lyrics in your book unless

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Designing a book cover–PART 4

02/16/201502/16/2015 Write Well, Write To Sell 250 Views 0 Comments book cover design, book promotion, ebook design, marketing, rick taubold

From Rick: Last time, I listed several design mistakes and offered some suggestions for selecting a cover design. In this installment, I’m going to give you some further thoughts to help you zero in on your cover design. I’ll give

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