My First E-Book Cover - Ideas

haha, if not, one or both of us has failed

 

Great job on the original covers, Jamms, and and excellent variation, Lukin. When I looked at your first variation, I thought, "Oh, no, too small for a book title!" Then you changed it to something bigger again, and it works. It's such a great title -- something that would sell a book -- that it has to stand out. Great job all around to you guys.

 

Can I give an honest opinion? I think the cover Lukin made looks great and really professional but I personally don't like the image. For me, that pyramid conjures up thoughts of whacky conspiracy theories such as the Illuminati and, for that reason, would possibly put me off from checking out the actual contents and subject of the book.

I don't want to plant seeds of doubt in your mind but your book is the kind of thing I'd be interested in reading, so, as a hypothetical customer, I'm just telling you what my first impression is when looking at that cover. Perhaps I'm alone in thinking this but I thought it might be worth mentioning.

 

Great work lukin, i like the green but thats just my preference

 

No, all input is valuable. I chose the pyramid as it's a representation of a thing supposedly described as sitting on the throne of god. I would definitely like to avoid the conspiracy theory market as it automatically throw what you are saying into a grey area of disrepute before people have even read it. But I do like Luk's cover, it's more professional looking than the ones I did.

 

I think it's giving off the wrong impression. It's not a conspiracy book at all. It's basically my mental journey over 20 odd years from ignorance, to belief to atheism and a dissemination of religion and the bible from a logical point of view. I don't make any outrageous claims or that in the book. I think Von Daniken would be the worst thing to be associated with.

 

I just opened all of them and flicked back and forth between them and you are bang on, the title is twice as clear on the blue cover.

 

You mentioned what it was about in another thread and it sounds really interesting, and that's the reason I mentioned that the pyramid image evokes negative connotations for me. Maybe stick with the layout of Lukin's but perhaps try a few different images.

I don't want to appear like I'm barging in on Lukin's or your work but this is the kind of thing I was thinking, using a more ambiguous image.

 

It wasn't negative at all. I can take care of the writing myself but I know that without a cover that attracts people's attentions no-one will read it, so I definitely need help in a critical sense.

Not at all. That is excellent. My first two are sort of ambiguous as I was going for exactly the same thing. Could you darken the back image? The title is a little too similar contrast wise.

I'm going to feel bad if I get more than one excellent cover now

 

I couldn't darken the image too much without diminishing the quality but I made the god text a bit clearer. It's actually a public domain image of the sun.

 

I love watching this creative process -- the talent you guys have is outstanding. Maybe you can help me when I attempt to publish my e-book.

A little reminder: Don't forget the importance of the words "Birth" and "Death" -- the book is about those things as they pertain to God, so keep 'em big!

EDIT: I was the Associate Creative Director at the last "real" company I worked for. One of my jobs was to write and design all the magazine ads. They spent hundreds of thousands on what I created shock, so it had to be good. (Not that I was under any pressure.) That's why I like the way you guys are so spot on in your designs and revisions!

 

Wish i had some kind of cool vision, i kinda had this idea..

a man sitting in white siluette with a thought bubble on the side of him with the title and questions... its not very clear
Scratch what i said about afx im acutally not sure which one i like the most

Heres my idea.. or a idea




insteadd of looking up maybe he could look into one of his hands e.g..

maybe its inspiration