Calling all designers! How would you like to design the cover of my next book, Tarot in Reverse?
Now let me be up front with you: there is no guarantee that Schiffer Publishing, the publisher of my next book, will choose to use your cover. However, if someone ends up designing a super-awesome cover that I love, I will do my darnedest to lobby to get your cover used! (Which means, of course, that you’ll get your name and website URL in my book, designating you as the cover designer. Can you say “free exposure to future clients”?!)
My Editor, Dinah Roseberry, approves--but again, we can't promise!
I’ll post all designs here on my blog with your name and URL. Again, free publicity for YOU! All entrants get a special gift from me, with the winner getting an extra goodie for his/her time.
The really great news, for me, is that U.S. Games Systems, Inc. has allowed me to use images of their beloved Universal Waite Tarot for both the cover design AND the interior book art. That means that you can acquire a copy of the Universal Waite Tarot, scan hi-res images, and use them in your design of Tarot in Reverse’s cover! Or, feel free to email me through my site and I'll send you the cards you request for completing your design.
The barebones of what you need on the cover is the title Tarot in Reverse and my name, Janet Boyer (don’t include the “by”—just use my name). If you choose, you can also include the subtitle Making Sense of the Upside Down Cards in a Spread on the cover. Allow the title and purpose of the book to inspire you!
After all images are in, I’ll post an anonymous poll here on my blog, as well as garner votes from my Facebook page. Considering those votes, my husband and I will then apply our own artistic spidey-sense to determine the cover that WE like best. Then, I’ll announce the winner!
You have 1 week until August 10, 2011, 2 PM EST to submit you hi-res image to me via email (please visit http://JanetBoyer.com, click on the email link on the left navigation menu and use that email address). Don’t forget to include your name and website URL that you’d like me to link to. Easy peasy!
Good luck…and I can’t WAIT to see what you come up with for Tarot in Reverse!
-- Janet Boyer, Amazon Top/Vine Reviewer, author of Back in Time Tarot, Tarot in Reverse (Schiffer 2012) and the Snowland Tarot (Schiffer 2013). Featured in Tales of the Revolution: True Stories of People Who Are Poking the Box and Making a Difference (A Domino Project eBook edited by Seth Godin)
