Today's question is: What is your take on the importance of a good cover and title?
Does a cover image play a vital role in attracting a reader? Should it reflect the genre and characters in the story?
Have you changed a cover? If so why? Was the new cover more successful?
Please leave your replies in the comments. Thank you
Comments from last week question:
When your narrative is set in a real location do you research it or do you visit it?
What are the pros & cons of utilizing the internet to find out about a location versus actually staying there?
I once wrote a character who worked in a factory. I didn’t care what kind of factory, it just had to be a factory. My aunt worked in a meat packing plant, so I asked her if I could visit her at work. Not only did they let me visit, I got a tour and got to watch “the line” as they worked. It was fantastic. The story was “Poor David” and it’s in my collection, Things Withered! I’m telling you, visiting that plant was invaluable, and I’ll use the info again in some other piece, I’m certain. It’s always better to see and feel and hear a place.
Both. If possible.
Very important. It can interest and draw in a reader. A bad cover can be doom.
Very true! Thanks for dropping by my blog.
Covers are extremely important. If a cover does not speak to me, I will not stop to see what a book is about.
I agree with you a cover is the first thing to attract a reader. Thank you for dropping by my blog.
I think a cover is extremely important and should reflect the mood/ genre of the book.
Covers can make or break a book that’s for sure. Thanks for dropping by, Pamela.