My First E-Book Cover - Ideas

[Lukin]

you think the red is better? i'll do a few variations

[Lukin]

i think maybe the last, rusty coloured one could work the best. it's bold without being too bright. and it's got a bit of red in it so may evoke dawkins' book subconsciously (as you say, not a bad thing) without being too similar

[Jammsbro]

You are right. I think I have a cover bro!!


You mind if I use it? If I sell a shit load I'll pay you. If not, I'll send you an e-hug!

[Lukin]

well here's a full size version.



if it needs anything doing to it when you come to submit it drop me a PM.


here's to hoping it makes you rich

[Jammsbro]

I'm just hoping that more than three people read it

[Lukin]

I'm just hoping that more than three people read it

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

[2001pm*]

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.

[AFX]

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.

[xrayray]

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

[Jammsbro]

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.

[S-type]

Just to be contrary, Jamms, I prefer the dark blue one - because it actually emphasises your title and de-emphasises the eye and triangle/pyramid design. That design to me is in some vague way reminiscent of the Von Daniken works, which may not be a problem if that is an area that you touch on, but otherwise perhaps might give the wrong impression?

Good luck, though!

[Jammsbro]

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.

[Jammsbro]

Just to be contrary, Jamms, I prefer the dark blue one - because it actually emphasises your title and de-emphasises the eye and triangle/pyramid design. That design to me is in some vague way reminiscent of the Von Daniken works, which may not be a problem if that is an area that you touch on, but otherwise perhaps might give the wrong impression?

Good luck, though!

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.

[S-type]

I wasn't sure whether in your book you spent any time debunking that sort of thing, in which circumstance an oblique pictorial reference to it would not be amiss, but otherwise not!
Sorry to be negative rather than helpful!

PS I like the concentric rings - they're a bit like the the ripples in a pond when a pebble falls in - expanding - like consciousness?

[AFX]

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.

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.