Time to train a new skill: book cover design.
I’ve always messed around with it a bit but not seriously enough to improve. But it turns out books need covers and mine will be no exception.
I could pay someone to do it, yes, but this is my book and I want to pick what it looks like. It’s time to learn how to make one and get good, before I need one.
In today’s progress update:
I’m learning book cover design (because books need covers)
Book progress
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For a practice piece I decided to tackle the cover to my short story Stone In The Sky.
I spent 8 straight hours designing this cover, and tried so many different things before settling on this, so I HOPE YOU LIKE IT.
It’s all just photos chopped up and mashed together, no AI stuff at all.
Could probably use another few passes, but I’m keeping it as is for a while now. I’ve decided to practice one new one each week.
Subscribers like you get to see it early before I post about it:
Looking forward to tackling the next one. I know it’s going to be hard but hopefully it comes out cool. I’ll show you next week.
Ok: last Monday I promised to show that week’s stats. Let’s pull them up:
Not a terrible week but not the massive increase I hoped for.
On Sunday I actually wrote a massive essay on character creation in fiction. It used up all my writing time, but I’m counting that as progress because I was teaching myself/learning.
Here’s to cool book covers,
— Samuel
P.S. if you’re reading this on [some local holiday], then [that holiday’s standard greeting] to you!