Book Cover
Budget: $150 – $350 USD
My novel, "Falling Idols" needs a spectacular, uplifting cover. 1. It's a 60s novel that needs to give a feeling for the times (protest) 2. Plus, it is a coming-of-age story and needs to reflect a college-age woman's courage (and triumph) in questioning her indoctrination to a methodology of a professor of deaf education. The issue is oralism (lipreading and speaking vs sign language. Therefore, something with hands could be included. The setting is Milwaukee, but as long as it's not a country scene that would work.
The climax of the story is a scene at a school board meeting and at a university hearing where she speaks up for her support of sign language in the public schools.
It has been suggested to me by my writer friends that the back of a young woman triumphing would work. I DON'T want an recognizable image since I want my reader to have their own image in their mind. However, if shown from the back, dark hair that is almost shoulder length as oppossed to a pixie haircut, etc. would work. The character is a conservative dresser of the '60s so not very hippie in style if that's an issue
I'm looking for an eye-catching, positive feeling, even while using the title "Falling Idols." (I can't change it on Amazon unless I republish the book completely.)
It also has been suggested that I get rid of the tagline "a '60s novel" so we don't have to worry about that.
I have no illusions about this being a great, exciting, page-turning work. It's not. But there is enough good writing and important theme that I don't want to DISCOURAGE readers as my present cover might be doing.
The cover with the apple is the one that is on Amazon now. I attached others that I had NOT chosen. The one with the girl silhouette would have worked, but the background etc. didn't seem professional enough for me. I'm including them just to show where my mind was going at the time and all the covers I've tried. I'm looking for the perfect cover.
Thank you for your time.
Billie Kelpin
www.billiekelpin.com
The climax of the story is a scene at a school board meeting and at a university hearing where she speaks up for her support of sign language in the public schools.
It has been suggested to me by my writer friends that the back of a young woman triumphing would work. I DON'T want an recognizable image since I want my reader to have their own image in their mind. However, if shown from the back, dark hair that is almost shoulder length as oppossed to a pixie haircut, etc. would work. The character is a conservative dresser of the '60s so not very hippie in style if that's an issue
I'm looking for an eye-catching, positive feeling, even while using the title "Falling Idols." (I can't change it on Amazon unless I republish the book completely.)
It also has been suggested that I get rid of the tagline "a '60s novel" so we don't have to worry about that.
I have no illusions about this being a great, exciting, page-turning work. It's not. But there is enough good writing and important theme that I don't want to DISCOURAGE readers as my present cover might be doing.
The cover with the apple is the one that is on Amazon now. I attached others that I had NOT chosen. The one with the girl silhouette would have worked, but the background etc. didn't seem professional enough for me. I'm including them just to show where my mind was going at the time and all the covers I've tried. I'm looking for the perfect cover.
Thank you for your time.
Billie Kelpin
www.billiekelpin.com