Book Cover Design

The design considerations that your cover should address include:

The narrative is the story or plot of the novel. You should consider time, place, character, genre and plot as important aspects of the narrative. Your design should indicate or prepare the reader as to the type of action, the genre as well as the mood of the narrative.

As you begin your design considerations you must address a design priority.....Is your story formal or is it informal?.....Is there humor involved or is it a serious theme?....Who is the audience?

In order to create the appropriate cover for your narrative every aspect of the cover design should be addressed. Mood can be created not only by your choice of image, but colour, type face or font, white space, design movement, textures all play and important role in communicating the mood and genre of the narrative.