10 Books for Cover Design 101
Each week, The Broke and The Bookish hosts the Top Ten Tuesday meme. This week's prompt is "Ten Books that would be on your curriculum list if you taught X 101."
The Learners by Chip Kidd ||| Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing School Series) by Gail Carriger ||| Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer ||| Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart ||| Cinder by Marissa Meyer ||| The Witch of Painted Sorrows by M.J. Rose ||| The Girl With All The Gifts by M.R. Carey ||| The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton ||| The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter by Rod Duncan ||| A Court of Thorns and Roses y Sarah J. Maas
I chose to do my imaginary course on book cover design. Despite the old saying, EVERYONE judges a book by its cover. There are a few exceptions, but those are mostly classics which all basically have the same format when it comes to cover design (old painting + basic text). If you are producing a new book, having a great cover allows your book to promote itself as it sits on the shelf.