Book Cover Design - Day 23 Video Lecture | Become a Writer: Enhance your Writing skills - Communication

hi everyone my name is Garrett Pearson
welcome back to day 23 today we're gonna
be talking about the book cover and a
psychological shift in your mind to help
you finish your book
so here we go
hi everyone
Garrett Pearson back to you with day 23
and I'm so excited to share with you a
psychological shift to help you finish
your book and that is your book cover
you see what I usually teach my students
and I say usually because this isn't for
everybody but to help you stay motivated
during the writing process I usually
teach people to create their cover
create their book cover just the front
cover for now okay create your cover
because here's what happens it motivates
you it's something tangible okay now
here's the next thing do not create the
cover yourself I don't care how good of
a designer you are you need to be
writing you're still in the writing
process and you need to finish writing
that book so you need to outsource your
book cover okay hire somebody that knows
what they're doing and that can do it
for you even again even if you know how
so I'm going to be giving you some tips
and techniques and some places where you
can go to outsource your book cover but
today I want to focus on this
psychological shift again the book cover
is tangible you can see it every time I
write a book I create my book cover in
the middle of the process sometimes even
before I write the book and I do that
because it gets me so excited and
motivated to finish the book because I
can see it it's something real now okay
now this isn't for everybody
and if this is going to throw you off
the write process then do not do it just
wait till the end okay but if you think
you can handle this and you can
outsource it then this is for you
because it's gonna help get you so
excited because it does me every time so
here are some tips of where to go to get
some book covers design there's a
website called book cover express calm
and they do an amazing job you can see a
lot of their samples they are a little
bit more on the expensive side but they
do an amazing job what I do usually is I
go to
Lance calm and in my book I give a lot
of examples of who I've used before on
Elance so elance.com go look for book
cover designers or just designers in
general and you can literally get a book
designed for about $100
okay front covered sometimes even
cheaper than that
so elance.com there will be links under
this video to take you right there
another one is 99designs comm now this
is a little bit different place because
what you're gonna do is you're gonna put
your project up and people are going to
start creating covers for you and you're
gonna choose which one you like again
this is a bit more expensive but you can
usually get a really good cover design
on 99designs for about two hundred
dollars now there's also lots of other
places to outsource design like guru
comm freelance comm all these freelancer
websites I love them so here's what you
need to do you need to go to amazon.com
forward slash books and start looking at
book covers that you really like okay
start outside of your genre or outside
of the the subject that you are writing
about and just start looking at all
kinds of designs if you're writing
nonfiction they look at all the
different kinds of non-fiction covers if
you're writing fiction then look at
fiction because they're very different
okay so here's the next thing you need
to create a wireframe for the person
that you hire now a wireframe is just
essentially you're creating a book cover
on a word document or wherever you want
and you're going to show them the title
the subtitle if you have one your name
and kind of the layout of your book next
you're going to go back to all the books
that you really liked and you're gonna
pick your top three okay you're going to
go through and pick the top three books
that you really really like you're going
to send your wireframe and those top
three books to your the person that
you've outsourced or the company that
you've outsourced you're gonna say I
love these three examples obviously
don't copy them and here's the wireframe
here is the mock-up of what I want the
but cover to look like and for now just
focus on the front cover okay you can
get the back cover done later in the
process when you go to publishing okay
now even if you go the traditional
publishing route because if you do
they're probably going to change the
cover anyways who cares
this helps motivate you and just keep in
mind as I said with your titles and
chapter titles and outlines it can
change okay so if you get to the end you
finish your book and the front cover and
the back cover and everything needs to
be changed then changing this is just a
psychological shift to get you motivated
and to help you in this writing process
and if you do get to the end and you
still love the front cover then you've
already got that process done for
publishing so create your book cover get
that psychological shift in your mind so
that you can finish that book thanks for
watching everybody
today is day 24 we're going to focus on
finishing that book okay
finishing your book thanks everybody for
watching and have a wonderful day
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