Please Give a Warm Greeting to Fantasia Frog Designs

Hi, I’m Tara from Fantasia Frog Designs 

I want to thank Paxton for hosting me today! And, to say Happy (early) Valentine’s

Day!

As a graphic designer, I count myself lucky to work with some wonderful book

publishers and authors (Paxton being one of them).

Fantasia Frog Designs has been creating custom and premade book covers, in

both ebook and print for over ten years. I hadn’t even realized that this is my tenth

year, until just now.

Maybe I should hold a celebratory giveaway.

Over the years I’ve seen such a wide variety of storylines and I’m amazed at all

the creativity and talent that is out there. Sometimes finding an image can be a

challenge. Most of the time I can alter an image into what we want. Making one of

the crew on a intergalactic ship blue is easier than you might think.

Many of the authors I design for write erotic romance, and as most authors know,

there are a few distributors out there who think a lack of clothing on the cover isn’t

optional. Getting an image of a hot couple often means the couple is nude or at least

partially nude, and that usually gets a cover rejected from the mainstream pages.

Even visible sideboob can get the cover banned. Cover artists can get around that

though. In the premade cover below, I have one version with the couple as the

photographer snapped the photo, and one where I removed and covered up the fact

that the woman was wearing hands for a bra.

Adding hair, changing hair colour, raising a collar to historic heights, adding horns,

wings, tails, you name it, it can probably be done.

As I mentioned, I create premade book covers. Using images I have on hand, as well

as by following what people have been searching for on my site, I get to freely create

something I think might be useful. Some weeks there’s a big surge on paranormal

covers, and then the next, it’s all about the billionaires. I can hope to get it close to

what an author will need, and maybe the couple is right, but the background is

wrong. In this example, I have a historic scene, but maybe, just maybe, the hero is

actually a pirate.

This change to a premade was a very simple one. I had both background images on

hand already, and truly, it was a matter of sliding one image in to the other’s place.

Now fonts, fonts are another thing entirely. I am crazy about fonts, and thanks to

some very generous typeface wizards, I have over 4000 at my fingertips. If you don’t

like the font, just let me know, I probably have something you might like better.

My premades range in price, ($15–$70), while most are $40. I also have some print

premade covers on the site though most ebooks can be made in to a print cover.

To see what premades FFD has to offer visit fantasiafrogdesigns.wordpress.com and

from there you can navigate by genre and price.

I welcome requests for premade designs. If you have a general genre or theme you’d

like to see more of, feel free to leave a comment here or on my site.

I think, as a way to celebrate my ten years of designing, I’ll do a giveaway of one

custom or premade book cover (equaling a $50.00) value (expires Feb 1st, 2019). To

enter your name, leave a comment here stating that you’d like to be entered and I’ll

get my husband to draw a name from a hat at midnight (February 11th, 2018). I’ll post

the name of the winner here on the blog post and contact them in the morning 

Thanks again for having me!

Tara