/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11620840]

Is there any reason why a publisher wouldn't let me design my own cover art?

It's a very big deal for me, and I keep hearing that its basically the norm for the publishers to fuck writers over in this case. My education is in the audiovisual field (which includes media as a whole, marketing, graphic design etc etc) so one would think that I can make one myself, right?

Pic obviously unrelated, apart from being cool artwork

[Anonymous No.11620854]

>>11620840
cover art is expicitly chosen to move product. it needs to be okay'd by beancounters. look at Wordsworth Classics, shit on them all you want, they sell

[Anonymous No.11620874]

>>11620854
I'm not saying that "fuck you this is the cover", but I'm not willing to be fucked over by a committee of autists who have historically been proven to be incapable of designing actually good covers either. I'm willing to compromise and listen to feedback, not to bend over and allow them to sabotage something if I literally have the skillset to make a cover art on my own

[Anonymous No.11620889]

>>11620840
Well, that's kind of a non-issue, since you'll never publish.

[Anonymous No.11620895]

>>11620889
upvoted my fellow redditor

[Anonymous No.11620928]

>>11620889
Shouldn't say never, but whites need to be cognizant of the fact that our publishing institutions are presently in the hands of nepotistic semites who hate us and are using them as propaganda outlets to promote nonwhites, trannies, general cultural poison, etc.

The chances are slim, and whites who wish to be writers are better off swimming against the current by using whatever artistic talents they have to attack those jews and the morose culture they're creating instead of pretending it's their own and that it will reward them for playing along.

We live in a new paradigm.

[Anonymous No.11620946]

>>11620840
The entire outside design (cover art, summary at the back, etc.) is designed by their in-house marketing people. They're not likely to give that kind of thing up.

[Anonymous No.11621703]

>>11620840
large publishers will generally not allow a writer to take part in the cover art selection. they will generally have a house style that they follow. there may be exceptions for massive selling authors but not many. also, international publishers will probably publish different editions in different countries with different cover art tailored to their markets. the author might protest but in the end the choice is like it or fuck off.
small publishers may allow some leeway in the design. i knew a writer who had a relative who was an artist and had a clear idea of what they wanted on their book, so they got their relative to design it and proposed it to the publisher, who accepted it.

[Anonymous No.11621795]

>>11621703
Even big writers rarely get a say. Noam Chomsky has said he's got zero control over the blurbs of his books.

[Anonymous No.11621800]

>>11620928
If I'm German with a German last name, how would they know I'm not Jewish? Most Jews have German last names anyway.

[Anonymous No.11621813]

>>11620874
You're gonna have to play by their rules until you are big enough to make the rules yourself. This is the height of the "I deserve everything, even though I haven't proven anything yet" thought process that plagues our generation

[Anonymous No.11621819]

>>11620928
Where is all this /pol/ bullshit coming from lately?

[Anonymous No.11621828]

>>11621819
/pol/

[Anonymous No.11621881]

>>11621813
>artists wanting control over their art rather than allowing bureaucrats to call the shots is an exclusive characteristic of "our" generation
fuck off boomer, you mindset is exactly the reason why they're allowed to get away with shit like this in the first place.

[Anonymous No.11621884]

>>11621800
German-iche. Most jew names are faux German/crypto names. I can tell the difference so I'm sure most jews can too.

[Anonymous No.11621993]

>>11621813
>This is the height of the "I deserve everything, even though I haven't proven anything yet"

are you fucking retarded? Im literally saying "hey, I will also provide you with the cover art, I literally am the audience for this book and know exactly what the audience for this book will want to see, youre a retarded suit boomer who most likely has a retard with the exact same education as me designing the cover, but they are 20 years older and understand nothing about the contents of the work"

[Anonymous No.11622009]

self publish

[Anonymous No.11622177]

>>11620889

this desu

[Anonymous No.11623636]

>>11620854
The first half of this post is correct.

>wordsworth sells because of their covers

they sell because they are the cheapest option.
I see college students at local bookstores ask for books for their classes and 100% of the time they choose the cheapest option over the pretty cover.
this also goes for bookstore bookbuyers.

[Anonymous No.11623679]

>>11621813
Fuck off boomer the art industry is a fucking travesty thanks to people like you

[Anonymous No.11623695]

>>11620840
These are artistically stupid covers and maybe I'm a tasteless hack but I still think I'm right

[Anonymous No.11624276]

>>11620928
Okay this is epic

[Anonymous No.11624308]

>>11623695
I'm not personally a fan of the beige but there's otherwise nothing wrong with the design of those covers. The character shapes give you a general idea of the main conflicting factions found in each movie with the inset silhouettes displaying a memorable moment from each film, not to mention the clever little details in using parts of the inset images as the eyes/visors of the larger character shapes. It's simple and classy.

[Anonymous No.11624328]

>>11620840
>Is there any reason why a publisher wouldn't let me design my own cover art?

You being very bad at it would be one.

[Anonymous No.11624373]

>>11624276
nigga if you do just a basic amount of research you can see how much blatant cherrypicked bullshit and straight up lies that list is

Tin House - lists editor Rob Spillman, who there's no information on whether or not he's jewish btw, instead of the founder and editor-in-chief Win McCormack

New England Review - Carolyn Kuebler, german surname, again listed as jewish with no corroborating evidence

Nearly all of the ones I checked were like this. No actual information on if the people were jewish, mostly just assumed jews based on what, names? Please do at least some research before you gobble the /pol/cock whole.

[Anonymous No.11624542]

Tao Lin drew his own cover kinda for his latest book

[Anonymous No.11624555]

>>11624373

[Anonymous No.11624604]

>>11624373
Maybe you just didn't look as hard as the person who arranged the data. All I see here is jewhining.

[Anonymous No.11624764]

>>11624328
>you went to school for 3 years to learn about digital media, marketing, shit like CMYK etc etc
>you know the content of the book and know what the characters look like, have already designed all these fantastical and complex things
>but YOURE BAD AT IT SO MY BOOMER WILL DESIGN IT TO SELL WITH HIS "INTERPRETATION"

[Anonymous No.11624786]

>>11620928
>nepotistic semites
Stop with the lies. They aren't semitic, they are Jewish.

[Anonymous No.11624819]

>>11624542
But tao lin is irredeemable trash

[Anonymous No.11625160]

>>11621881
you are reaching for a company to publish your work, they can name the rules all they fucking want. Not happy? you are welcome to look for another publisher while there are hundreds of people trying to get published

[Anonymous No.11626194]

>>11624786
Jews are semites.

[Anonymous No.11626444]

>>11620874
I guess you're not getting published then lol

[Anonymous No.11626954]

>>11625160
You're saying:
>the industry is the way it is because idiots like me exist and allow them to do whatever they want

I'm saying:
>you're exactly right and you should feel like an idiot for acting like an idiot and degrading the industry
Just so we're clear