Unabridged: What Makes a Book Cover Pop with Luvvie Ajayi Jones
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Today we are joined by author Luvvie Ajayi Jones to discuss the all-important topic of book cover design and book marketing. Luvvie regularly works with aspiring new authors through her Book Academy, guiding them all the way through the publishing process. We also play a game where we predict whether or not a book will sell based on the title and cover (see the covers here).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another bonus episode of the Stacks on a Bridge. I'm your host |
| 0:05.9 | Tracy Thomas and today I am joined by four-time New York Times best-selling author |
| 0:11.5 | Lovey Ajay, who you might also know as a speaker. |
| 0:16.0 | She is a professional trouble banker. |
| 0:18.0 | That's the name of one of her books. |
| 0:19.9 | She also has an incredible resource for authors and writers called the Book Academy |
| 0:25.3 | where she will help you take a book from an idea all the way through the |
| 0:28.4 | publishing process and today she and I are digging into cover design. |
| 0:33.7 | We're talking about what makes a book work, |
| 0:36.0 | what makes a book flop, what is a great cover, |
| 0:39.1 | how you can know if your book has a great cover. |
| 0:41.8 | It's a really fun and interesting conversation and it's for all of my |
| 0:45.6 | subscribers over on Substack and members of the Stax Pack on Patreon. |
| 0:50.5 | If this episode cuts out for you after about 15 minutes, that means you are not part of the |
| 0:57.2 | sub-stack or the Patreon communities and you need to join to hear the entire episode. |
| 1:03.1 | In addition to this episode, you get inside access to the podcast |
| 1:06.2 | and for just $5 a month, you make it possible for me |
| 1:08.7 | to make this show. |
| 1:09.9 | So if that sounds like something you're into, |
| 1:11.5 | head to Patreon.com slash the to Patreon to join our bookish community |
| 1:15.1 | or check out my newsletter at tracieomas dot sub-stack.com. |
| 1:18.4 | Okay, that's enough for me. |
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