Book Cover Design: Fiction Literature Analysis Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Please provide your email address? *Who is your Publisher? If they have a cover template, please send that to me.Please explain the title?What is the subtitle, if any?Please explain the subtitle?What is the author name as it should be displayed on the cover?What is the geographical location(s) in the book?What is the time period in the book?What is the milieu in the book?What is the tone/atmosphere/mood/zeitgeist in the book?Tell me more about the culture(s) in the book?Which images in the book reference the(se) culture(s)?What is the genre?Who is the target audience? What themes, subjects, or scenes in the book will your target audience most resonate with?What keywords relate to the text?Please tell me about the plot?Who is the protagonist, and tell me more about this character?Who is the antagonist, and tell me more about this character?Tell me about the climax and resolve, if any, between the protagonist and antagonist?Tell me about the supporting characters and minor characters?Do the characters go through a character arc where their personalities change?What is the narrator's point of view?Please tell me about yourself as author?According to Christopher Booker there are 7 basic archetypal plots. Which one would you say describes the plot most accurately?The 7 story archetypes are: Overcoming the Monster. Rags to Riches. The Quest. Voyage and Return. Comedy. Tragedy. Rebirth.Which stereotypes do we have to avoid for the cover?Do you have a back cover blurb? Please paste that here or email it to me when ready.Please send me the manuscript or a chapter or the book description or blurb when you are ready so that I can get a feel for the material.What graphic elements do you think can work on the cover?Will you be supplying any images for the cover or do you need me to source or create them? If you are supplying images are they licensed for use in a publishing project?To legally use an image in a publishing project, it must either be in the public domain, utilised under fair use exceptions, or properly licensed whether through a Creative Commons license, a purchase from a stock image platform, a direct agreement with the copyright owner, or a custom commission from an illustrator or designer.Which ideas do you have for the cover?What colours do you think can work on the cover?Which art graphic design style do you think will suitable your cover design?Do you feel a preference for an illustrated cover, or a cover that mainly uses typography, or a cover that mainly uses photography?How strongly do you feel about these ideas you have for the cover, and may I deviate from them and bring my own ideas to the table?What other books are similar to this book?What are the trim size (dimensions) of your front cover?Do you have a spine width yet? Please send that to me when available.Do you have a barcode yet? Please email that to me when available. If you are publishing through Amazon we can leave the barcode area empty. If you have your own imprint, then I will need the barcode.Will this book be part of a series where the same identity is carried through from one book to the other? Has the series identity been designed yet, and do you need help with that?With regard to costs, what is most important to you:To get the book cover design done as cheap as possible even if it compromises the qualityTo achieve a high-quality end result for enhanced reader engagement and satisfaction with less concern about how much it will costTo find a balance between quality and cost by compromising on some aspects of the designAre there anything else you want me to know?How can this form be improved?NameSubmit
