How to Ensure You’re Happy with Your Final Book Cover Design

"Don't judge a book by its cover!"​

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​We’ve all heard this before, and yet we are all guilty of buying a book simply because we fell in love with the cover. As much as we try to avoid it, the truth is we all do judge books by their covers. An eye-catching cover can be the difference between a book making the bestseller list or sitting untouched on the shelf, gathering dust. You work so hard to write the best possible book you can, and your work deserves a cover which makes it impossible to leave unread. At Rowanvale Books we have a Custom Book Cover Design Service run by our expert Design Team so you can spend less time worrying about what your book will look like, and more time doing what you love: writing.  
Here are our top 3 questions to ask yourself to ensure you are happy with your final book cover design.

• Does your cover design look professional? 
  
  

Your book will soon be on the shelves of your favourite bookshops, your hard work shelved alongside the authors that you most admire. So, you don’t want your book to look any less than professional quality. Your name is going to be on the cover, after all, and you want it to look good. A professional-looking book cover will let readers know that you are an author to be respected and admired, and rightly so. You can find tips on how to create a professional cover design here, or you may wish to use the Rowanvale Books design services. Using the Custom Book Cover Design Service, you will liaise with a member of the Design Team throughout the process to ensure your options are discussed from a professional perspective.  

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• Does your final cover design truly represent your writing and your story? 

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​You have put your heart and soul into writing a book that you can be proud of. You want readers to see your cover and learn a little something about the wonderful story they can expect to find inside. Your final cover design should make people as excited to read your book as you were to write it. With Rowanvale Books cover design service, we develop your cover around your ideas. We encourage you to provide our Design Team with as much information as possible, such as images and book covers that inspire you, sketches and written thoughts. This way, you can be sure that your final cover design is personal to you and truly represents your story.  
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• Have you explored all your options? ​

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​Just as you have spent countless hours editing your book into the masterpiece it is today, your cover design is unlikely to be perfect on the first try. Try out a few different styles before settling on your final cover design to ensure that your chosen image is the right one for you. At Rowanvale Books we create three different concepts for you to choose from. You may fall in love with one particular design, or you can choose to mix-and-match various elements from all three to create your dream book cover. Your cover design will stay with your book for years to come and will ultimately become the most important representation of your book to you and your readers, so make sure you are happy with every detail. With Rowanvale Books, you are able to make amendments to your cover right up until the final design is confirmed.  
 
At Rowanvale Books, we offer a selection of individual services and self-publication packages including all services listed above. To find out more, please visit https://www.rowanvalebooks.com/self-publishing-services or contact us at [email protected] ​​