by Hanna Sandvig, @hanasu
I’m a big Pinterest user, and as a cover artist nothing makes me more happy than an author who also uses Pinterest. Cover designers are, by our nature, very visual and Pinterest is a purely visual way of conveying ideas, making it the perfect way to work with your cover designer. Designers often don’t have time to read your book before working on the cover (and often the book is still being written when I get started!) so communicating your story through images gives us a way to read your mind, which is a pretty handy trick. Here are a few ways you can use Pinterest to communicate with your cover designer: