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The first one is the only usable photo — the second is washed out and the color is off; the third one's blurry; the blurry background and weird halo around the girl on the fourth just scream amateur.

I think you can make the first one work, though, with a better type treatment. Not crazy about the font, but more than that, why is the title the only text on the cover?

I find myself giving this advice far too often: look at other books. What are other books like? Make your book look like that. Have you ever seen a book that didn't have an author name on the front? Have you ever seen a book that gave no indication whatsoever what kind of book it was or what the book was about? Because your covers don't do that at all.

The good news is, it's an easy fix. Add an author name. Add one more piece of copy — a tagline that gives more information, or "a novel" or "an inspirational journal" or "a cookbook for diabetics" or whatever this book actually is. And font-wise, again, look at other books. See what kind of fonts they use. Bold block type is en vogue right now because it's easy to read even when you're seeing the cover as a thumbnail on Amazon (and if you're self-publishing, I assume that's where people are going to see this cover.) Again, look at other books, especially ones aimed at a similar readership. See what other designers did that you like, and imiate that. If you don't own a bunch of fonts (or any), fonts.google.com is a pretty solid collection of free fonts, and fontsquirrel.com has some pretty good free and cheap fonts.

Again, these are easy fixes, and I hope I'm not coming across as too harsh. You're just learning how to do this; we all started off not knowing how this works. But the best way to learn is by looking at other books and seeing what worked for other people.

Imagine your book cover in an Amazon search. It's going to be a small thumbnail, right? Everything you put on the cover should work at that size. Note that doesn't mean it has to be legible at that size. In fact, if you have a fair bit of text, it's better to have some in a size/weight/colour that will make it kinda disappear at that size, so that the title (and usually author name) stand out.

Here's a good example of a text-heavy cover that doesn't look that way at all in thumbnail view. Note how the title and "author" name stand out when it's small, with the translator also legible, while all the details recede without distracting from the overall design.

Thinking this way helps you establish a very clear hierarchy in the text. You've clearly got some sort of hierarchy going on, but there's not enough distance between what's important, and what's not important.

I like them! Many will fail to see the humor.

Sometimes they actually sell. Sometimes well. There's a story of a tow truck and snowblower on Amazon right now (It's seasonal) Hookers and Blow save Christmas.

You need to learn how to read. Book Descriptionhttps://www.amazon.com/Crew-Five-Bad-Street-Bears-ebook/dp/B07RDNX631/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=crew+five+bad+street+bears&qid=1602204566&s=books&sr=1-1 learn

Learn to read. https://www.amazon.com/Crew-Five-Bad-Street-Bears-ebook/dp/B07RDNX631/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=crew+five+bad+street+bears&qid=1602204566&s=books&sr=1-1 the first book

learn the first story before looking at the second one hears my link. https://www.amazon.com/Crew-Five-Bad-Street-Bears-ebook/dp/B07RDNX631/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=crew+five+bad+street+bears&qid=1602204566&s=books&sr=1-1

Well they do and the bear is part of the story I'm talking about. Here's my first book link https://www.amazon.com/Crew-Five-Bad-Street-Bears-ebook/dp/B07RDNX631/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=crew+five+bad+street+bears&qid=1602204566&s=books&sr=1-1

Skin color of figure is lost against the pink BG. I'm confused at what the figure is drinking. Is it wine? Is this the 5th grader? If this is a murder mystery, why does she seem happy?

The light brackets, stool top and subtitle are the same color, which in my bookstore glance, tells me they're tied together. Why, though?

Take a look at Robin Williams' "The Non-Designer's Design Book" for a wonderfully quick primer on design basics. It is top-nothch and older versions are likely in libraries. You deserve the best cover possible.

I got my book cover design from Ghost Book Writers !! their book cover designer are highly creative, try them and let me know !!

What niche are you targeting, and what do the recent bestselling covers look like? If this quality is the standard in your niche, it should be okay, but if your audience is the mainstream romance crowd, the cover would absolutely benefit from a professional polish. This cover screams homemade and I wouldn't think this was an MMFF romance.

The background photo is appropriate for a romance. I'm getting possessive alpha vibes from this. Possibly billionaire, workplace, or BDSM, since the man is wearing the suit? But without photomanipulation techniques (blending, shadows, etc), the main subject doesn't really blend into the background. And why is she so low on the cover?

I'm not a fan of the typography. The cursive font with the huge drop shadows doesn't look great, and its placement right on top of the woman makes the entire thing look unbalanced. When I look at this cover from a distance, there's so much going on towards the bottom, yet the upper part seems empty. I'm not sure why the subtitle is placed right in the middle, my eye is drawn to it, when the main focus should be the subject/title.

For the font, perhaps you could alternate between cursive and a bold, sans serif font. This combination is very popular for romance covers. For example, something like this.

My book has been translated in Italian. And I have further plans to translate it in Spanish, French, Arabic and Portuguese. I want to follow similar cover format for all translations. That's why I wanted to get some feedback on the book cover before I completely commit to it.

In case you need more details, you can check out the book here.