Woman Submit

Woman Submit! Christians & Domestic Violence by Jocelyn Andersen

Did you design the cover? Yes

Is there an interesting story behind the cover design? Yes

If so, please share the details. The bruised and beaten hands on the cover belong to me--the author. The cover image is a police photo taken when I finally made it to the emergency room after 32 hours of being held captive after my former husband tried to kill me. He was an associate pastor of our church--hence, the Book Title, Woman Submit! Christians & Domestic Violence.

Are you happy with the cover? Very

Tell us what you think is the best part of the cover. A picture is worth a 1000 words. I believe the image I chose for my cover leaves little doubt concerning the book's topic even if the title wasn't so explicit.

Please provide your website link. http://WomanSubmit.com and www.JocelynAndersen.com

What is the link to buy your book? www.Amazon.com Woman Submit! Christians & Domestic Violence by Jocelyn Andersen, Links are also provided on both of my websites www.WomanSubmit.com

Genesis of Man by June Austin

We want you to share your book cover with us. An attractive cover is a big element in the appeal of your book.

We want the details about yours.

Did you design the cover? No

Did your publisher design the cover? No, but he did put me in touch with the designer

Did you get to give any input about the cover design? Yes, I discussed it with both the publishing company and the designer himself.

Is there an interesting story behind the cover design? If so, please share the details.

This is actually the second cover that this book has had. The original was very different - white with Adam and Eve figures standing either side of a cross entwined with 2 serpents. The original cover was intuited through meditation, and although a lot of people did like it, the majority of reviewers and book stores did not, and so it became apparent that I needed to change it. After spending time looking at covers in book stores and discussing with the staff what did and did not work, they all said the same thing - a red or orange cover with a strapline and very simple images. After discussing this with the designer, he came up with three designs, two orange and one blue. The orange ones were both similar to the original, one with a cross and one with an ankh (symbol of life as opposed to death). My publisher and publicist both liked the blue one, but I wasn't sure, so I asked everyone on my mailing list to vote for which one they liked. The overwhelming majority liked the blue, and so the blue one it was !

Who is the cover artist? Clifford Hayes

Are you happy with the cover? I am delighted with it. It gives the book a whole new feel, and a much more academic and professional image and is attracting a different set of buyers - including book stores !

If not, what would you change and why?

Tell us what you think is the best part of the cover - I like all of it - this is quite a religious book (one magazine reviewed it as the opposite to The God Delusion), and blue is the colour of the Virgin Mary, so it may help to bring in more of the religious buyers. I also love the words that are scrolling across the cover in the background - these are all themes in the book and all relevant. The strapline - the answer to life, the universe and everything in between really sums up what the book is about as well, and I love the font.

Is there anything else about your cover that we need to know? Feel free to share.

Please provide your website link.

www.juneaustin.co.uk

What is the link to buy your book?

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0755202368?tag=talismanskull-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0755202368&adid=0S2DQDAJ7HDW3K5ZCQWA&

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0755202368?tag=juneandcolin-21&camp=1406&creative=6394&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0755202368&adid=0PVAFP7M3SBCZZH7D77P&

I have sent both links as I live in the UK, although I guess most of your readers will be in North America !

Sleep Before Evening

Did you design the cover? Actually it was my publisher who designed the cover, but they allowed me a lot of input and we had gone through quite a few designs, including hiring an artist to do some renditions, before we all agreed on this one. In the end I had my heart set on a pretty Kandinsky painting which seemed to have every element of the book in it, but the copyright costs were prohibitive. My publisher had already given me a few options to choose from, and I was the one who pointed to this one and asked for the tealy colour.

Did your publisher design the cover? Yes! See above.

Did you get to give any input about the cover design? Yes I did. BeWrite took a lot of time and trouble over it, going back and forth with designs and although I don't think they had to legally (and I don't believe large houses do), they let me have the final say about which cover I wanted.

Is there an interesting story behind the cover design? If so, please share the details. We had an awful lot of trouble coming up with a workable cover design. We even hired an artist who did some gorgeous pictures, but they were too literal. My book is fairly rich in imagery, and when he tried to pick up one image (a pretty young girl playing chess for example), it make the book seem like something other than what it was. We had ocean scenes, pianos, chess boards, music stands, music books on pianos, music books over the ocean, a heroin needle, a needle mingling with a piano, and so on. You get the idea! We also went for some beautiful abstract art, but the really famous stuff like Kandinsky was just too expensive. The Tasmanian artist I found didn't get back to us. In the end, my publisher designed the cover herself, and created something very simple, quite abstract, but still evocative of the book.

Who is the cover artist? I believe it was designed by Cait Myers, my publisher.

Are you happy with the cover? Yes. I wasn't at first to be honest. I felt it was too blah -- too dark and blurry. But it has definitely grown on me.

Tell us what you think is the best part of the cover. I like how it suggests a young girl, perhaps in that state of happy euphoria that children get when being swung on a swing or thrown around by a trusted parent. The cover seems to capture that paradoxical sense of abandon and absolute safety that drives my character into the situation she gets herself into. But I also like how it doesn't lead the reader too much -- it's allows itself, like all good covers to, to meld with the reader's own perception of the book. I think that's important, particularly in my novel, which seems to have the effect of being read quite differently by different readers (and I'm happy about that!).

Please provide your website link.
http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/images/SleepBeforeEvening.htm

What is the link to buy your book?
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1904492967?tag=thecompulsiverea&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=1904492967&adid=0AN3KDC1AG3WF2AD4EDC&

B&N: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9781904492962&itm=3

Conor and the Crossworlds by Kevin Gerard

Did you design the cover?

Only in my head. It's a real task sitting down with illustrators trying to convey an image that's inhabiting your mind. I looked at seven artists' renderings before finally finding my cover artist.

Did your publisher design the cover?

No, they had nothing to do with it.

Did you get to give any input about the cover design?

I had 100% control.

Is there an interesting story behind the cover design? If so, please share the details.

Actually, there is an interesting story. The name of this mystical creature is Purugama, and he's been flying around in my head for just about forty years. When I was a boy, probably the same age as my protagonist in this first book, I used to lie in bed at night and imagine this very creature landing softly outside my bedroom window. I would climb aboard his strong back and become a great warrior, fighting for good everywhere we traveled. True story.

Who is the cover artist?

His name is Justin Gerbracht and he lives in San Diego County.

Are you happy with the cover?

Are you kidding? Look at that powerful image. When kids see this they can't look away. When I look at it I see exactly what I imagined forty years ago. The great thing about Justin is his fantasy vision. I talked with him once about my idea and he drew a rendering of this cover. I was blown away.

If not, what would you change and why?

Wouldn't change a thing.

Tell us what you think is the best part of the cover.

Purugama is a Champion of the Crossworlds, one of six giant feline protectors of an infinite number of worlds in the system. He looks so powerful and dominant, and yet here he is ferrying a ten year old boy from earth on a mentoring journey. When I look at this cover I think to myself, "what young boy wouldn't want to have Purugama for a friend?"

Is there anything else about your cover that we need to know? Feel free to share.

Wait til you see the cover for Book Two!

Please provide your website link.

http://www.conorandthecrossworlds.com

What is the link to buy your book?

The home page of my website has links to Amazon, B&N and Borders.

Judgment Fire by Marilyn Meredith

We want the details about your cover.

Did you design the cover?

No.

Did your publisher design the cover?

The publisher has a cover artist who designed the cover.

Did you get to give any input about the cover design?

I didn't want people on the cover, I wanted it to have Native American symbolism, and that's what the artist came up with.

Is there an interesting story behind the cover design? If so, please share the details.

Mainly, I wanted the cover to convey the feeling that the book had something to do with Native Americans.

Who is the cover artist? I don't know her name,

Are you happy with the cover? Very much so. She did a perfect job. I loved the cover she did for my last book, Calling the Dead, but I like this one even more.

Tell us what you think is the best part of the cover. It catches the eye and conveys exactly what I wanted.

Is there anything else about your cover that we need to know? Feel free to share. It's simple but very eye catching.

Please provide your website link.

http://fictionforyou.com

What is the link to buy your book?

http://www.mundania.com

It's MY Crisis! Ad I'll Cry if I Need To

Did you design the cover? No.

Did you get to give any input about the cover design? Yes. My publisher (Angela Hoy at Booklocker) offers templates for book covers, but she was receptive to my use of original artwork.

Is there an interesting story behind the cover design? If so, please share the details. My book teaches readers and those with whom they share the book about how to help someone in a medical or emotional crisis. People who'd read the rough drafts kept commenting that the manuscript evoked a strong sense of compassion and user-friendly advice that calms agitated readers. Artist Miriam Greeenberg's career is all about soothing people. Her artwork and my text were a good match.

Who is the cover artist? My friend Miriam Greenberg is the artist. She selected a painting entitled "Compassion" from her portfolio and presented it (via jpeg) to me as a gift. Miriam and I had discussed the popularity of her captivating work over time. One day she shocked me by asking me to use the painting for my book cover. She found it most appropriate for my book about helping people to cope with medical crises. Her site is http://eliscorner.com/categories.asp?cat=19

Are you happy with the cover? I am thrilled, grateful and awestruck at how suitable it is for my content and purpose in writing the book.

Tell us what you think is the best part of the cover. It's a triple treat for the eyes and heart. First, the arms arms reaching for each other demonstrate that this book is for readers of all ethnic groups. They're not easily identifiable skin tones: they look a bit ethereal, hinting at the universally inspirational content of the book. They also hint at the wide-ranging Resources guide in the back of my book. Those global resources clue in people with specific ethnic and other medical/emotional needs to suitable outlets. Second, the arms signify a need for the sufferer and the people who want to help her or him to reach for each other . Third, the colors of the cover art are soothing.

Is there anything else about your cover that we need to know? Feel free to share. The title It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To resonates with readers. Many of them let me know that it's reminsicent of a Leslie Gore song and that the catchy meter and memorable, meaningful words fit the purpose of the book well. The exclamation point assures readers that I advocate two things: that the appropriate sympathy for ill people be demonstrated by loved ones and acquaintances of the sick person, and that the ill person needs to validate their emergency in order to go psychologically forward. The back of the cover shows several approbations (blurbs) for my book. They're from a prominent psychiatrist, a Christian minister, a rabbi, a Fortune 500 motivational speaker and a National Institutes of Health researcher. More praises, from other people, appear inside the book.

Please provide your website link. http://itsmycrisisandillcryifineedto.blogspot.com/

What is the link to buy your book? http://www.booklocker.com/books/3067.html

One Smooth Stone by Marcia Lee Laycock

We want you to share your book cover with us. An attractive cover is a big element in the appeal of your book.
We want the details about yours.

Did you design the cover? No

Did your publisher design the cover? He contracted an artist to do it.

Did you get to give any input about the cover design? Yes. I was pleasantly surprised to get a phone call from the artist one day. He wanted to know about the book, if I had any ideas for the cover and asked to read the excerpt from which we drew the image. When I told him I didn't like covers with people on them he chuckled and said we were on the same wavelength. That made me relax and we had a good chat.

Is there an interesting story behind the cover design? If so, please share the details.
When the first draft of the cover was done I asked my publisher if I could send it to some friends for their opinion and he gave permission. Some said we should change the hand to a woman's because it's women who buy the books, but those who had read a draft of the manuscript thought the cover was perfect as is.

Who is the cover artist? John Cowie

Are you happy with the cover? Yes, very happy with it. I like the colour - it's vibrant.

Tell us what you think is the best part of the cover.
An underlying theme of the book is that we all fit perfectly in God's hand. I think the cover conveys that while at the same time having enough intrigue that it will make people want to pick it up. I hope! :)

Is there anything else about your cover that we need to know? Feel free to share.
I was told that authors rarely have a say in the cover of their books, so I feel really privileged to have had some input and thankful that the artist was willing to work with me.

Please provide your website link. www.vinemarc.com

What is the link to buy your book? www.castlequaybooks.com

Marcia Lee Laycock
Author of One Smooth Stone
No matter how far you run, God will find you; no matter what you have done, God will forgive you.
www.vinemarc.com
www.marcialaycock.blogspot.com

Three Feet Under by Christee Gabour Atwood

We want the details about your book cover.
My cover includes the photo from my monthly humor column in City Social Magazine in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Did you design the cover?
No – but I did design the cover for my self-published version of the book and I really liked it.

Did your publisher design the cover?
Yes. The first one they sent me was horrible! I had said yes to all the changes they had suggested before that, but when I saw a crayon drawing of me coming up out of a grave (for Three Feet Under), I screamed and threatened to send them one of my stray cats unless they changed it. That worked.

Did you get to give any input about the cover design?Actually, once they had showed me the bad one, anything else would have looked great to me. So I didn’t actually give any input about this one except, “Thank goodness!”

Is there an interesting story behind the cover design? If so, please share the details.
The picture was a fun session with a Baton Rouge photographer, Will Ohalloran. He just kept shooting while he cut up with me and when I threw my arms up, he caught the shot. It’s amazing how many people see me and raise their arms like the picture. Or maybe they think I’m trying to rob them. Hmmmm…

Who is the cover artist?
I don’t know who actually arranged the elements, but Will did the photo.

Are you happy with the cover?
It’s nice because, with the picture of me on the cover, I can carry a copy of the book into a bookstore and they know I didn’t steal it.

If not, what would you change and why?
On the other hand, I would have liked for it to be a little more dynamic. And maybe they could have Photoshopped a better body on me… and a better face… and better hair… Actually, it would have been nice to just put a willowy blonde on there and pretend she was me…

I’m also much more a primary color type girl than pastels, so I would have liked bright colors.

Tell us what you think is the best part of the cover.
The bar code. Because that means I actually can pay the rent.

Please provide your website link.
www.Christee.biz

http://elasticwaistbands.blogspot.com/

What is the link to buy your book?
Amazon.com: christee atwood