When to order your book cover?

Many writers are so busy writing their book that they forget to think about their book cover. However, timely access to your cover design is more important than you might think.
Developing a cover by a professional designer takes time. The designer must properly understand what your book is about, and many correspondences may occur before he can begin the design. Then he must address his resources to find the right elements for your design and after that he can start the real work. Finally, he will present his design to you where after you still have the opportunity to comment and request adjustments. So some time goes by before your cover is ready.

Then you have to take into account the promotion of your book. It’s a good idea to start already marketing your book before your book is finished and printed. You have to intrigue your potential readers, post teasers, if possible even start the presale. For this you will need banners and other graphics, but this is what your professional designer can help you with.

In my view, you should at least start with the realization of your cover if your book is written for two third and you’re sure you’re going to finish your book, but there are others who say that you should have your cover available much earlier.

Debbie Young, of the Alliance of Independent Authors, writes in an article on their site, that among their members many writers develop a cover very early for the following reasons:

• Mocking up a book cover before you start writing makes a book seem “real”, which can help motivate you to write it.
• Defining the cover before you write the book makes you consider your readers’ perspective.
• Having the cover in front of you while you’re writing keeps you focused.
• Once you’ve planned your book, you know what the key elements will be, so it’s easy to brief it in to your designer at that stage – why wait?
• Planning it early gives you the chance to live with the cover for a while before you have to commit to the final version.
• If you’re taking this approach of writing the book from the outside in, so to speak, why stop at the cover design? Also add a working title, strapline, and make up a puff quote from the type of person you’d like to endorse it.
• If you show off the cover while you’re still writing the book, you’ll intrigue your audience long before the book is published, via a cover reveal announcement at any stage you like, and warm them up to purchase it once it’s published.

Of course you’re not pinned down to your cover once your book is ready to publish, even if it has already been published. It happens more than once that authors or publishers change the cover at a later stage if they notice that the book does not sell quickly enough because the cover might not appeal enough.

MaryDes becomes your design partner

At MaryDes we know that the cost of publishing a book can be significant. That’s why we offer you a complete service. When you order from us your book cover before 07/15/2016 you’ll get following benefits:

• Based on your information, a beautiful exclusively for you created book cover by Maryna, multiple award winning designer.
• Unlimited adjustments until your book is printed. We will be available to you and your publisher until your book is released.
• Free e-book cover (temporary included in the book cover price)
• Free promotional banners and adds about your book for your social media like Twitter and Facebook.
• Free article at our blog. As soon as your book is released we will write an article about it and publish this, with a link to your book, at our blog.
• Free promotion through our social media. Once your book is released we will present it to our connections at Twitter, LinkedIn and FaceBook. All with links to your site or book.
• And above all an excellent service through the years, because we would like to build up a long time relationship with you.

Together with you, we make your book a success.
Enjoy today this combination benefit and order your book cover on MaryDes.

 

CD cover: Through The Chakras

Susanne Murphy is a colour therapist, author and educator. She is vice president of Colour Energy, the world leader in offering colour, chakra and aromatherapy products, services and education for more than 25 years. They manufacture and sell products based on Colour Therapy and Wellness.

For her meditation CD, she needed a cover representing the 7 chakras and a white beam going through it.

As we do in all our designs, we wanted to create atmosphere and placed a silhouette in front of a full moon.  Moon is symbol for woman. The chakras are represented by the coloured lights on her body and above. Since this CD is about colour therapy we’ve created the subtitle in all of the rainbow colours.

Find out more about Colour Energy at: http://www.colourenergy.com

Look at more cover designs or order your own at: www.marydes.eu

Book cover: El Hombre Canción

An older man looks back at his childhood. As a Jewish boy he grew up in an orphanage. Although he was very poor and had a rough time, he kept on singing.
El hombre Canción is a novel about a boy who brings into the heart only love, nobility, and infinite curiosity for what is happening in this world. The child is, as is our destiny, in a world that no matter what should be, is what it is.

Isaac Zimmerman organized an international design competition to create the cover for his book, which was won by us.

The older man who looks back at his childhood is symbolized by the boy and the shadow of an older man.  The boy on the cover does not exist. We needed to have a look of a poor boy with dirty clothes and medium trousers walking at the beach and carrying his sandals. The hair, head, body, legs, clothes, rags of the boy are all different pictures. The sandals were added later and everything was seamlessly blended together. We created a late evening sky and added some light effects. Even the sea consists of two different pictures because we really wanted to have the right wave at the beach.

Nothing at this picture is real, but we were able to create the right atmosphere for his book and are proud to have created this little jewel. So thank you Isaac for honoring us as winner.

You can find more wonderful covers at Marydes.

 

CD cover: Sundays in Paris

A native of Chicago, Lena Natalia recently returned to the U.S. after living in Paris, France, for several years. Lena Natalia brings a fresh, new sound to Modern Classical music with her emotionally-evocative and minimalist piano melodies.

Her debut album, SUNDAYS IN PARIS, a collection of original modern classical piano melodies, was released in November 2015; the title track from the album recently won the award for BEST INSTRUMENTAL SONG in the 5th Annual Indie Music Channel Awards held in Los Angeles in April 2016.

In June 2016, SUNDAYS IN PARIS  was awarded Gold Medals for BEST ALBUM and MINIMALIST PIANO MELODIES by the Global Music Awards. 

We have designed the cover for this Album. Although we had presented Lena with many designs based on original pictures we had taken ourselves in Paris, Lena wanted us to use a picture of a city view she has taken while she lived in Paris.  A picture that was of a lesser quality we were used to work with and that needed a lot of retouching, like removing cables in front of buildings, making cars in the street les prominent, changing angles of chimneys, changing colour of sky to create more atmosphere, and more…

It is easy to delete cables visible in the sky, but when it comes to delete them from buildings many designers will face problems with this because the deleted parts need to be refilled with the original background. This is not easy to do when the cables were visible over structured walls and windows. But we managed to do so by zooming in and redraw every missing line and object in detail by hand. A time consuming activity but with a positive result. You can’t tell where the cables were.

We wish Lena a lot of ongoing succes and hope to work with her again in the future.
This is wat she wore about us:

 

“Maryna has been a delight to work with on this project. She is talented, thoughtful and seems personally invested in successfully seeing a project through to its best result possible. She provided not only a wide variety of ideas for consideration, but was also able to see details that others may not have, which translated into a better overall final product. Maryna is also extremely responsive and was willing to make any changes I needed in order to meet the final specs by deadline. She is wonderful to work with and I am very happy to have had her expertise on this!“

Lena Natalia USA (CD Sundays in Paris)

Website of Lena Natalia: http://www.lenanatalia.com/

Visit our site to see more CD covers: www.marydes.eu

Book cover: The Courageous Life

“Being overwhelmed with the big picture
can hinder you from being in the picture at all.”

Melissa J. Nixon (USA)

Melissa J. Nixon (USA) is a professional speaker, trainer, and leadership coach who spend her days connecting with the hearts of women and pushing them past their perceived boundaries to achieve goals that were once just a thought.

Recently her new book: “The Courageous Life” was published and we’re proud to say that we have designed the cover of this book. She loved the concept of puzzle pieces or leaping. Since leaping images are overused and it would not make her book stand out, we concentrated on the puzzle pieces.

Your life is build up from talents, experiences, knowledge, emotions and more, who needs to fit together like puzzle pieces in order to have success. Her added value is to learn people to use courage as the last puzzle piece. So puzzle pieces were really something we could work with.

Before we started the design we did some research about Melissa, her character, her website and the colors she uses. It became quickly clear that she is a very energetic person. Therefore, we wanted this energy also to be reflected in the design. Since the book supports a business purpose many designers would choose a more serious look but we went searching for some more energetic pictures of her that would enhance the energy we wanted to transmit. Melissa shouting was a good choice.
We also have used the colors of her website because it contributed to the branding of her business. It is important to have this consistency.

It is also important to understand that we did a lot more than just create the cover of her book. We became part of this project, created parts of the design that she could use for promotional reasons and gave her advice about the use of fonts and colors. We saw this project through to the end and that’s what we stand for: a reliable partner for our customers.

More about MaryDes: www.marydes.eu

More about Melissa: http://courageouslifeacademy.com/

See how Melissa promotes her book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8T2oyv6phM

 

Book cover: ReStart

“Unleashing your potential starts with overcoming barriers to success.”

Chad Goldwasser  (Austin, Texas,USA)

Chad Goldwasser, the number 1 ranked real estate agent, lives his mission every day by efficiently and effectively guiding real estate professionals through the path to success, financial freedom and a better life. He does this by empowering them with easy-to-implement methods, systems and tools.
His new book, “ReStart” is out and we are proud to have created the cover design for this book.

He wanted us to create an epic book cover about the 7 key system the author used to become the #1 real estate agent in the world.

By analyzing his wishes we extracted some key elements: real estate business and the 7 key system.
We wanted this cover to enhance the professionalism of Chad Goldwasser, build trust and invite to read.

The city nightlife enhanced with some visual effects was used to create the background, but the most important element was the picture of Chad himself which really needed to show maturity, professionalism and dynamism. We did not like the original picture he delivered, but together with his contact, Joshua, we found the right image that could convince every reader.

Thank you Chad for giving us the opportunity to create this design for you.

Website of Chad Goldwasser

Check out more covers at our website.