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Title: ADVICE NEEDED: Hiring non-fiction cover designer?
Post by: ErikT on October 06, 2018, 01:04:15 PM

All the cover designers in the cover design forum seem to specialize in various fiction genres - sci-fi, romance, thriller, horror, etc.

I'm sure they'd take my money for a non-fiction design, but it seems to me that it's a different style of art, and if I'm going to pay for a custom cover design, I probably ought to look for someone who's good at what I actually need, not just a sci-fi cover author deleting the battlestar from his usual setup and putting my finance title on the same background.

Any advice for where to find a non-fiction (finance) cover designer?

Thanks,
Erik

Title: Re: ADVICE NEEDED: Hiring non-fiction cover designer?
Post by: Alice Sabo on October 07, 2018, 02:50:09 AM

My cover artist is a professional graphic artist. He's worked in marketing,  so I think he could handle non-fiction. Give him a shout, he's very easy to work with. Alex Storer. Here's his website.

https://thelightdreams.wordpress.com/

Title: Re: ADVICE NEEDED: Hiring non-fiction cover designer?
Post by: Denise on October 07, 2018, 03:06:50 AM

Go On Write has nonfiction.

Title: Re: ADVICE NEEDED: Hiring non-fiction cover designer?
Post by: ErikT on October 07, 2018, 06:18:17 AM

Thanks for these replies; I'll check out these leads.

Best,
Erik

Title: Re: ADVICE NEEDED: Hiring non-fiction cover designer?
Post by: Melody Simmons on October 08, 2018, 07:36:00 PM

I used to design quite lot of non-fiction covers, but due to being overwhelmed with too many projects I had to reduce the number of genres I cater for.  Now I only work in certain fiction categories.

These two design sites have some really good non-fiction design services though:

https://www.bookflydesign.com/nonfiction/

https://damonza.com/portfolio-2/non-fiction-samples/

Title: Re: ADVICE NEEDED: Hiring non-fiction cover designer?
Post by: ErikT on October 09, 2018, 07:38:33 AM

Thanks Melody, much appreciated.