Cover Art
The Smart Bitches are running a cover art contest - submit your amateur romance cover, and win a prize. They're trying to prove the point that you can make cover art for nothing (or next to it) without having to use Poser or make your readers' eyes bleed. They're right.
I submitted one, just to help them prove the point. The post is here. This is my cover:
Well, my skills are pretty basic. I suck at typography, too. But I still maintain it's better than Poser.
Everyone's left for RWA. Lucy Monroe is having a no-Nationals party - check it out. How the hell is Wendy Crutcher so smart? I love her post at RTB this morning. And if you're really suffering conference envy, you can read the Blogging Nationals page. Really, everyone is very nice. No beeyotches at all...
posted by Abby @ 6:52 AM
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damn, that's GORGEOUS. You're better than a lot of pros.
As a pro, I'm pretty impressed. You're right - the typography gives you away, but not by much. It's prety close. And the pic itself is perfect.
Checked their contest - yours is certainly in the top 3 for design. Unless they are going for cheese? The "pro" covers are bloody awful!
Some of those blog readers need to settle down. They keep going on about spitting up their tea reading the "hilarious" quotes. They aren't THAT funny, are they?
Well, the flaw with the SB contest was that they weren't clear whether the covers should be a joke or not, despite a few people asking in the comments. So they got a serious/joke mix.
I thought I did pretty good, but they're raving about all the other ones in the comments, so I doubt I'll win. Good bye, $50 at Amazon :)
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