#IWSG Blog Hop February 1st, 2023
#IWSG Blog Hop February 1st, 2023
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#IWSG Blog Hop February 1st Hosts
Jacqui Murray, Ronel Janse van Vuuren, Pat Garcia, and Gwen Gardner!
February 1st question –If you are an Indie author, do you make your own covers or purchase them? If you publish trad, how much input do you have about what goes on your cover?
I have done both. I love making covers. I’m not bad at it, but it is time consuming getting it right and genre specific. It requires research of the genre, finding and purchasing the right images, and then getting the program to do what you need it to do to make the cover look good and comparable to other book covers in the genre. Things don’t always work the way you imagine them or the program just won’t do it sometime. I will probably buy my future because really just don’t have time, unless I am not happy with what is offered to me.
I created the book cover for my flash fiction collection on Amazon. It is a collection of flash fiction in my world of Moon Hollow, and fantasy series Magic Born or Magic Cursed? The shorts of ideas of a story that I am building the series on. Some of the things and ideas will change in a novel, but the characters and their essence will remain the same. I have the discover draft finished for the origin story short, and have started planning the first book in series.
Currently I am working a series I will release this year, 2023. Midlife Ghostwalker: Katje Storm a paranormal women’s fiction. It has been a lot of fun to write. I am in the process of revising and expanding an outline I wrote for the novel on Medium. You can learn about that here. I am also working on the short story that will be a free story to my newsletter and optin.
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February 21, 2023 @ 17:56
Love your covers!! Sorry I’m so terribly late to your post but looks like that’s how I roll these days!
February 3, 2023 @ 11:55
You are a lady of many talents!
February 2, 2023 @ 16:44
I like your Magic Born or Magic Cursed? cover. You did a great job on it–it has atmosphere.
February 2, 2023 @ 18:16
Thank you. I bought the cover for my first book and told them my ideas and they use same concept so this looks like it fits into the series.
February 2, 2023 @ 12:15
With a schedule like yours, it helps to outsource the tasks like covers.
February 2, 2023 @ 14:49
Yes it does. Thanks for visiting.
February 1, 2023 @ 23:22
Wishing you lots of success as you finish up your new series, Juneta! I’ll be hiring when I get to the cover point. Have a creative and productive February!
February 2, 2023 @ 14:48
Thank you.
February 1, 2023 @ 14:58
As always, you’re busy, busy. 🙂
Anna from elements of emaginette
February 2, 2023 @ 14:48
Yes, stay busy now I work full time and write. Happy IWSG
February 1, 2023 @ 13:32
I’m with you–it takes a long time to make the right cover.
February 2, 2023 @ 14:47
Yes it does. lol. Which is why will buy mine probably. No time.
February 1, 2023 @ 12:58
It takes our illustrator a month or two to come up with a cover. It’s a lot of work.
February 2, 2023 @ 14:47
Yes lots of work. The last one I hired was 100Covers.com and I was pleased with the results.
February 1, 2023 @ 12:38
It’s great that you can design your own covers but have the option of paying someone to design them. I’d definitely have to pay someone. Awesome about your new release this year.
February 1, 2023 @ 12:51
Thank you I am excited about it. Working hard to make it happen.
February 1, 2023 @ 09:10
A new release this year? Very cool!
February 1, 2023 @ 12:50
Fingers cross, yes. Thank you.
February 1, 2023 @ 09:05
I like the title “Midlife Ghostwalker”. Can’t wait to read the series!
Ronel visiting for IWSG day Strategies to Be a Successful Author
February 1, 2023 @ 12:49
Thank you. I hope you enjoy it when you do.