Self publication is a great way to get your first books on the
market. What some forget about, is that books needs to have a
visual appeal to the readers, even if it is only availble
digitally.
I'm raising this issue of illustrations because it is something
that is important to consider when you are going to publish your
book/article. Having the right illustrations/book cover is going
to make a tremendous difference to wether peoble are going to
pick up your book and give it a closer look.
There is a lot of great illustrators out there that wil be able
to help you with that task, and it is just about finding the
right one that you think has the style you are going for.
To start with I would like to advertice my cartoon site that
has cartoons suited for many different topics. They would go
especially well with non-fiction books where you need to give a
humours angle to a topic, or just something to break up the
text, so that the readers get a break.
Visit the site at: www.gagtoon.com
I do illustration work as well, and some of my work can be seen
at: www.stigkristensen.com
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I would like to end this with a couple of open questions to all
of you:
1) Do you consider illustrations as an important part of the
publication?
2) What holds you back from using illustrations when self
publicating?
3) Do you "judge a book on its cover"?
If anyone has any other thoughts on the subject I would be glad
to here them and discuss them.
