I was sent a link to a website today that I thought I’d share with you, since it’s (a bit) interesting.  It’s the website for a designer who helps self-published authors redesign their book covers, and it has a few examples of what makes a bad front cover and what makes a good one.

Now, I’m not going to get into the whole self-publishing debate, other than to say I don’t believe you should ever pay a publisher to publish your book for you.  Actually becoming your own publisher is very different, and something we can look at it another post.

I’m not making any recommendations of the designer’s work here – I haven’t looked at any more of his site other than those at the link below, so I don’t know a thing about him – but I thought the side-by-side comparisons of the before and after cover designs were worth sharing.

You can find the comparisons here:  http://www.fostercovers.com/before_after/