Pre-Made vs. Custom Book Covers, Explained | Usama Munir, Design Dusk - The Writing Coach Ep. 238
My guest this week on The Writing Coach podcast is Usama Munir, the designer behind Design Dusk, a book cover studio with more than 1,700 pre-made covers ready to go, plus custom covers, book trailers, and full interior typesetting. He designed his first book cover as a teenager, for an author who reached out to him out of nowhere, and he never really stopped.
We get into the real difference between a pre-made cover and a custom one, and why pre-made is usually the smarter starting point, not the cheap one. We talk about genre conventions, and why the cover you personally love might be…
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