Sure-Fire Ways to Make Sure Readers Know What Your Book Is About

How to Tell a Book by Its Cover — or Why Cover Design Is Essential for Sales

Sandra Wendel
The Startup
Published in
6 min readJun 14, 2022

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What is this book about? © Write On, Inc., by Addasta on Fiverr

Ever pick up a book and anticipate a juicy mystery thriller only to discover it’s a memoir of abuse? Or grabbed an enticing romance novel (or what looked like one because of the six-pack-ab boyfriend on the front cover), but it…

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Sandra Wendel
The Startup

A picky nonfiction editor who helps authors write, polish, and publish their books. Author: Cover to Cover: What First-Time Authors Need to Know about Editing.