The Importance of Book Cover Design with Geoffrey Bunting

My guest in this podcast episode is Geoffrey Bunting, a book cover designer based in the UK.

He’s worked for publications like HarperCollins and National Geographic. In this episode of the podcast, we get into how you can get ready to work with your book cover designer, how much you should expect to pay, and how to figure out the types of book covers that will work in your niche.

In the second half of the interview, we also talked about Geoffrey’s other type of work, designing and laying out books.

I asked Geoffrey what he thinks about the layout software Vellum, and he has some interesting insights on software versus working with a professional book designer.

In this episode we discuss:

• Is there more work for book designers due to self-publishing
• How to market yourself as a book designer
• Why non-fiction is easier to design for
• Deciding on the type of cover
• Should you have different covers for different countries
• How much you should expect to pay for a professional book cover
• The process for designing a book
• Designing for print vs Kindle

Resources:

• Vellum
• InDesign
• Geoffrey Bunting

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