Review: A beautiful showcase of the designer of bestselling book covers
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 30, 2012
This Kindle book is a cool showcase of selected Kindle ebook covers designed by the talented Susanna Ivy. Further, her covers help sell books -- a number of these covers resulted in bestselling books and viewing them is a good study for what works in Kindle book design. With only a front cover for Kindle books, the design of a cover has to have maximum impact at thumbnail size, as well as on a small rectangle on the Amazon buy-it page. My publisher had her design one of my covers and it is a good-selling book. It is not enough to write a great book. It has to be wrapped in a beautiful package. Susanna Ivy has a keen artist's eye and an intuition for design that takes the high concept of a novel and delivers the author's words as a visual theme in the marketplace. Also an award-winning photographer, Ms. Ivy has a sense of light, color, and composition that translates from her photo savvy into her graphic design for book covers. This is a display of her talent as a book designer that shows an understanding of what makes novels intriguing to readers in the marketplace and beyond. Five stars. -- Eve Paludan, Author of Ghost Fire