You never really know what you enjoy until you try it. It never occurred to me I’d like graphic design until I decided to design my own book covers. Even better, people actually like my artwork. Now, I’m selling premade book covers that I designed. For fellow authors/designers out there, I bought all my images…
It’s time for another look behind the cover. My first non-fiction book Building Dark Worlds: A World Building Guide will be released in October. The cover presented a new challenged. I knew I wanted to use this image. I’m gathering my posts about #worldbuilding to turn them into an ebook #amwriting #darkfantasy http://t.co/K8TusX1NEu pic.twitter.com/ECiCKY4m5M — Auden Johnson (@audendj)…
I have two books coming soon! I talked about Devortus Reigns before- the book with dragons. It’s now called The Marked Hosts. I finished designing the cover. Getting it right was frustrating. I didn’t know what I wanted it to say. I wasn’t finding images that worked. Firstly, I’m noticing well over half my readership are…
People will judge a book by its cover, and it’s interior. I touched on this in the post What Does Your Cover Say? How do you escape the DIY look most self-published books have. Well, you can hire a professional cover designer. For some, that’s not realistic. I don’t have the money to keep going to…
Thanks for your suggestion for the We Are Not The Enemy cover! I shared the first finished version in the post Behind the Cover: Another Redesign. You suggested I put the focus on “Not” instead of “We.” The author read the comments and she agreed. Putting the emphasis on “Not” wasn’t a matter of just copying and…
And now we’re back to our regular schedule…schedule. Sorry for being afk (got gaming on the mind from an anime) for over a week. Christmas threw off my blogging. I recently completed a cover redesign for Deborah Johnson (my mom) and her co-author Mark Wallace. Last year, they published We Are Not The Enemy. It’s…
Here’s the cover for Chains of the Sciell, Book 2 of the Merging Worlds series! For those making covers or any artwork for your book remember, you probably won’t get what you want at the first try. It’s like a first draft of a novel. Your first try at designing a new cover might be…
Sometimes a book needs a makeover. It’s easy to change a cover and add some bonus content for ebooks. With Amazon, the update goes live in a couple a hours. This month, I’m releasing the novella Shadows under the Light (working title) Part 2 of Visible Through Darkness. The cover for the first book needs a fresh…
What haunts demons? This is the cover for my new haunted house novella. Potential cover. I’m waiting for feedback from my publisher, Aubey LLC. She likes the cover. Now, she’s seeing if it matches the story. Here’s the description so far. I’m still tweaking it. Expelled from his birthplace for a power he couldn’t control,…
I love ebooks, but there’s nothing like holding your first book. I finally finished the layout of The Sciell and uploaded it into CreateSpace. I had to upload and re-upload it because first, my interior was rejected and then my cover was rejected likes three time. Finally, everything is done…almost. I just got the proof….
