With the volume of first-time covers submitted currently, I want to decrease the number of resubmit posts to prevent a backlog.  Accordingly, a new policy: unless your resubmitted cover is a completely reworked and re-imagined cover, please post successive “tweaked” version of your cover in the comments to the original post.  I’ve edited the HTML hints below the comment box so that the image tag appears.  To repost your cover, please:

1. Upload it somewhere on the web (your own website or blog, or a free host like postimage.org or imgur.com).
2. Post it using the HTML tag like this:

   <img src="https://www.whereveryourimageislocated.com/yourbookcover.jpg">

Onward and upward!

I didn’t start this site as self-promotion for any of my services, and I don’t intend to start now; this is just a one-off to let interested parties know of my new site, Thrifty Book Covers, selling pre-made ebook covers for $30 each.

Lordy, lordy.  I just got a metric crapload of error messages from my host’s email server (why it decided to dump them all today, I don’t know), notifications that messages sent to me from the contact form here were bounced back from my gmail account.  That means that ALL of these people sent covers for criticism, and I never got them. YEARGH.

Not only that, because the error messages are text-only, I still don’t have the actual covers, so I can’t belatedly throw them in the hopper.  My only recourse is to email back the original submitters, explain the problem, and have them resend directly to my email address.

If you’re someone who’s been waiting for your own cover to show up here, I can only point my fingers to our robot overlords and shrug apologetically.

While you’re waiting for the next critiquable cover to show up here, you could check out Corp-ID-Theory, a cool new blog by Michael Shumate. why yes, we are related; in fact, he’s my father.  And whereas I’m a largely self-taught designer who proceeds by gut feeling and tries to justify it afterward, Dad is an honest-to-goodness retired professor of graphic design.  His new blog is all about branding design, and if you think that’s a field unrelated to book cover design, you definitely need his blog.

The picture didn’t come through. Please contact me at nshumate at gmail dot com.

Yes, I’m working on getting a new means of submitting covers.