In the good old days, readers bought books in bookstores. They traveled to the store and unless they were shopping for a specific title, readers then wandered the aisles in general or headed straight for the section with their favorite genre. After browsing, they made a decision to buy based on three things: an enticing cover, an intriguing back cover description, and a captivating first page....
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Writing a series is a great way to continue characters your readers love, settings they can’t get enough of, and conflicts that keep them turning the pages while wondering how it might be resolved in a future book. (I don’t mean cliff hangers, but a character who will have her or his own book to solve an issue brought up in a prior book.) In Sandy Appleyard’s post, she talks about ways to...
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I’ve said it many times, images often create more interest than words, and when you add motion, meaning animation, you exponentially increase your viewer’s interest. I’m going to show you 3 simple animations using Book Brush’s animation tools in their Custom Creator. Tip: The animation tools in Book Brush are simple to use, just remember to add the animation Hide when you don’t want your object...
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Today’s blog is not only showing you examples of templates, but how to make the changes inside the templates to customize it using Book Brush Tools. Through the past few months, I’ve shown you many ways to think outside the box as you to look at templates by using the book’s title, the cover imagery and colors. For those blogs I used what we call at Book Brush, our Instant Mockups. But are you...
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Using predesigned templates can save you a huge amount of time and energy in the marketing side of your author business. At Book Brush, we call these Instant Mockups, and I use them all the time. For this post I’m going to show you how I used 3 criteria; the book’s title, the cover imagery and colors in choosing templates for three vastly differing books. Using The Title I wouldn’t do much...
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