Ever since I started making maps for fantasy books, I’ve been on the hunt for other artists who do the same. Both because I want to see where the field is at and because I just love looking at beautiful maps! Unfortunately,
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I make LGBTQ historical romance book covers. Yet, I often see the implication that creating F/F or M/M historical covers is impossible unless you’re getting a custom photo shoot, due to lack of stock photos. While I acknowledge it’s a challenge (especially
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I’m a book cover designer who makes premade historical romance book covers. That means I need historical romance book cover titles. So many titles! I went looking for a title generator for historical romance novels, but I couldn’t find anything that was
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I’ve made a title generator for urban fantasy and paranormal romance books! You can find it here: Urban Fantasy and PNR Title Generator.
I’m a book cover designer who works largely with self published fantasy novels. These days, most of my covers use a combination of stock photos and 3D models posed in DAZ Studios. For the example piece, I’m going to be using “Legend
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As a book cover designer, I see some common mistakes both from authors’ DIYing and designers new to book covers. And even for authors who aren’t DIYing, it’s important that they have some basic information so they can evaluate potential covers and
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A lot of self-published authors realize that they need a book cover, but they have no idea where to start. So I decided to put together some information to help you find a book cover! Here are a few common places indie
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I’m going to go over all of the pre-Photoshop work that goes into designing a book cover! I’m currently offering a discounted custom cover package called “I’ve already done the legwork” where the the client does all of the pre-Photoshop work themself.
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Diversity in stock photos is bad, and it can be difficult to impossible to find a stock photo that matches your protagonist, especially if your protagonist is trans. The “trans” tags of many of these sites are filled with cliches, badly-labeled photos,
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One of the greatest challenges of photo manipulated covers is that they rely on stock photography. Rather infamously, stock photography has a serious diversity problem, and it can be challenging or sometimes impossible to find a model that matches your protagonist. Adding
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