Book Cover Design: Non-Fiction Literature Analysis Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Please provide your email address? *Who are you publishing with? Are you self-publishing? Do you have your own imprint?What is the title of the book, please?Please explain the title?What is the subtitle and please explain it?What is the author name(s) as it should appear on the cover?What is the editor name(s) as it should appear on the cover, if at all? Who's viewpoint do the text represent?Please describe the author(s) voice and temperament?What is the central premise (main idea/thesis/argument) of the text?What is the narrative or plot documented in the manuscript?Which visual metaphors in the text summarise the narrative?Who or what is the protagonist and the antagonist in the text? Please describe these characters or groups or elements.Is there a catalyst in the narrative? A catalyst, in case you don't know, is an event or person that incites the protagonist and/or antagonist into action.Who is the target audience?What keywords relate to the text?Which themes run through the text? If you have the list of contents, please paste that here.Do you have a summary/synopsis/blurb for the back cover? Please paste it here.Please tell me more about the geography, politics and time period in the text?What is the tone/atmosphere/mood/zeitgeist/general sentiment?Please tell me more about the culture(s) in the book?Which images in the book reference the(se) culture(s)?What is the genre?Explain the similarities and differences between this book and other books in the same genre? What makes this text unique?Which stereotypes do we have to avoid for the cover?Do you have any ideas for the cover?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?We can go three directions with this cover: (predominantly) photographic, or typographic, or graphical. Do you have a preference for any specific direction?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, utilized 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.Through which lens do you think the manuscript should be analysed?(Eighteenth Century) Early ModernNeoclassicalEnlightenmentRomanticism(Nineteenth Century) Realism and NaturalismSymbolism and AestheticismHeterologicalMarxism(Twentieth Century) PsychoanalyticFormalismStructuralismDeconstructionFeminist CriticismReader-Response and Reception TheoryPostcolonial CriticismNew HistoricismNew African Literary StudiesEnvironmentalismDigital HumanitiesBook HistoryGenre StudiesOtherPlease explain the selection?What are the trim size (dimensions) of your front cover? Will it be a paperback or hardbound cover? Will the book have a cover jacket? A hardbound sometimes uses a cover jacket that includes a cover wrap of a few millimetres where the front cover image wraps over onto the front flap.Do you have a spine width yet? Once the final proofread manuscript has been typeset (called the typescript), and the book extent (number of pages) is finalised and the kind of paper has been selected, the spine width can be calculated. Each publishing house have their own formula to calculate the spine width. Amazon KDP has an online spine width calculator that you can use if you are publishing through them, see https://kdp.amazon.com/cover-calculator. Please send me the template if you are using Amazon KDP. If you are not publishing with Amazon KDP, please ask your publisher the spine width once you get to that stage of the production process.Do you have a barcode yet? Please email that to me when available.Are there any logos that need to be included in the cover design? Please also email that to me when available.Do your company have a brand identity manual that informs the look and feel of publications?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?EmailSubmit
