This week, the Open Book Blog Hop bloggers are interviewing their book cover designers. I am not able to interview Tim Barber from Dissect Designs in the time frame required for this post, but I am able to tell you that he designed my covers for both While the Bombs Fell and Through the Nethergate.
I had ideas in my mind for both covers and Tim did a fantastic job of plucking my thoughts out of my head and turning them into the perfect book cover. Pretty amazing in my opinion.
The cover for Open a new door, the poetry book I co-wrote with poet, Kim Blades, was designed by David Cronin from Moyhill Publishing. I think he did a splendid job of working with my idea and creating an appropriate cover for this book.
The covers for my children’s books I design myself. They are simple and feature one of my own cake and fondant people designs. This is my new banner featuring all my Sir Chocolate book covers designed by Bella from Thoughtsnlife blog:
Bella also designed my new banner for this blog, Roberta Writes:
To read the interviews by other participating bloggers about their cover designers, you can click here:
If you wish to join in, here are the rules:
- Link your blog to this hop.
- Notify your following that you are participating in this blog hop.
- Promise to visit/leave a comment on all participants’ blogs.
- Tweet/or share each person’s blog post. Use #OpenBook when tweeting.
- Put a banner on your blog that you are participating.
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I like the way your new blog banner relates back to the diagonal lines in Through the Nethergate, While the Bombs Fell, and Open a New Door. Pretty cool!
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Thank you, Priscilla. I think Bella did a great job.
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Thank you
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Thanks.
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I hadn’t noticed, but you’re right! Very cool.
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I like all the covers, but I think I like the children’s’ book covers the best.
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Thank you, Dan. I am very fond of that series of books.
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The covers look good. Nevergate attracts the eye. It makes one want to know what the book is about.
Have a great and inspiring week.
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Thank you. I am glad you like my covers. I hope your week is also good.
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Your covers are all excellent and look very professional. My publisher designs mine and I love them!
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I like your covers too, Darlene. Your publisher does a great job. Thanks for your comment.
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Lovely covers, Robbie. I especially like the children’s ones that you did yourself. Well done!
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Thank you, Stevie. I am rather fond of Michael and my Sir Chocolate books. I wish I could print them at a cheaper price, but photographs are expensive.
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Reblogged this on Ed;s Site..
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Thank you, Ed.
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Some great covers, the cookery books are brilliant, whimsical and eyecatching. The others are very atmospheric.
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Thank you, Richard. I am glad you like the covers for the children’s books. I enjoy the artwork for those very much.
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What a clever topic. I love how you display your covers (might steal that idea) and am quite impressed with your new banner. I’m going to see if Canva will allow me to do something like it.
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I created them on Canva, so you certainly can. Have fun.
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Thanks again, Bella, and for all your help getting this site right.
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Pleasure. It was a great learning opportunity. Not all themes on wordpress are made equal. Lol. 😉
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Thank you, Jacqui. I am delighted you like the display and banner. I thought Bella did a super job.
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Thank you
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I think Canva does that for banners. I like to use banners on Publisher, set any width I want. My current header for my blog, I set it to 19 x 8.5, imported (copied and pasted) my own photo and book cover and so forth…
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Thanks for adding your thoughts, Miriam.
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You’re welcome, Robbie. I also got templates from PowerPoint to create headers. They’re artistic.
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I also use PP, Miriam, for a lot of my adverts which I make.
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I think PP and Publisher are great for many things. I’ve used the calendar on Publisher for as long as I can remember. When I was working, I used PP for presentations and training at work and used Publisher to do the workbook/handout for the Parent Involvement Conference because it involved in graphics, charts, floor plan of the resort and workshop rooms, advertisements from sponsors. My other part of the job required me to use Access and Excel. It was fun learning on the job.
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I also use all of these things, Miriam.
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Good to hear that. I think you and I are a few who use all of them. Even my supervisor didn’t know how to use Access. Yay for us, Robbie!!
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Yes, yay to us. We are innovative.
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I’m glad, Robbie. And I understand what some guys do on their jobs!
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The cakes and fondant look delicious! Did you hate to eat them?
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My sons, nieces and nephews have no compunction about eating them at all, Patricia, and neither do my work colleagues. They are all my food art guinea pigs.
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Thank you Robbie, for the mention.
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My pleasure, Bella.
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Robbie, your book designs are great, and I love how you have made them into billboard’s, so clever
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Ah, I do not do that, Bella. AllAuthor does that for me. You should have a look and see if you can do something like this.
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Okay, great tip. Thanks so much
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I joined AllAuthor but forgot about it.
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Did you? They send me emails with these pictures.
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Oh, I’ve overlooked the emails because I have tons of emails. Let me go to the ‘trash’ folder to rescue some. 🙂
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Kudos all around–fantastic covers, every one!
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Thank you, Bette. Hugs.
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A very interesting post! The process of book cover design is fascinating to me. I’m always interested in hearing how it’s done. I do like your new banners.
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Thank you, Liz. I am sure everyone has there own way of interacting with their cover designer. I usually have a good idea of what I want before I speak to Tim.
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The covers are great, and so are the banners, which are a great idea!
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Thank you, I have had it in my mind to make banners but lack the time and expertise to do it. More the time really. I am delighted with what Bella has created for me.
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it seems like a good cover is often critical to the success of a book.
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I absolutely agree, Jim. People buy with their eyes.
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These are all terrific 🙂
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