Yes. I commissioned my good friend to design my cover during the first round of the contest. You can never underestimate the power of a cover. It’s all you really have to go on in a book store anyway.
So... drop some cash on it. Even if it’s one of your friends and you’ve known them forever. Pay them anyway. It’s their time and their art. Either way, invest in getting something.
If you get quill, you’re on your own. If you get the full boat, you’ll get a cover designer who will do something for you. If you want a truly custom cover with artwork and non-stock imagery or further illustrated work: You’ll also need to pay more for whatever illustrations are done outside of Inskhares that their cover designer will incorporate into their design.
You generally go through a few rounds of cover design where you get to have feedback and try out different design directions and incorporate elements of them. I’m currently in the thick of it.
If you want to see what it looks like, go here and read my updates:
It’s the year 2147: a time of enduring peace on Earth. The Last War ended half a century ago. We can cure most ills, the air is pure, and teleportation is how we get around. Sounds great, right? So why does everyone suddenly want to kill Joel Byram?
I’ve seen a lot people with some pretty professional looking cover art for their funding projects and I was wondering how they are doing it. Are you hiring artists? Drawing your own? Etc. Plus do you intend to keep this art for the final project if it makes it through the pre-order funding round?
For my project The Dead Wizard, I had some art work that I had done for it a while ago but it really wasn’t as good as what someone with more experience could do. I had considered hiring and artist but worried that if I made it to full funded project, I might have to ditch the art for the published version. I didn’t want to get the artist’s hopes up and then have to tell them "Sorry , we using a different cover now." Mostly this was a thought because some publishers have a cover art style, so to speak. And you can tell their imprints by the art style. I didn’t know if Inkshares had something like that going on.
How did you decide whom to hire and what about if it gets through full funding? Can we keep the cover?
A common parasite. A desperate man. Combine the two and you have the perfect soldier for the Army of the Man. Eric Lawson wants to change the world. He had no idea how much he would be changed in his quest to do so.
So... drop some cash on it. Even if it’s one of your friends and you’ve known them forever. Pay them anyway. It’s their time and their art. Either way, invest in getting something.
If you get quill, you’re on your own. If you get the full boat, you’ll get a cover designer who will do something for you. If you want a truly custom cover with artwork and non-stock imagery or further illustrated work: You’ll also need to pay more for whatever illustrations are done outside of Inskhares that their cover designer will incorporate into their design.
You generally go through a few rounds of cover design where you get to have feedback and try out different design directions and incorporate elements of them. I’m currently in the thick of it.
If you want to see what it looks like, go here and read my updates:
https://www.inkshares.com/books/the-seventh-age-dawn