Got a tangential industry question!! What’s the fair market rate for an illustrator to start doing novel covers? I got a friend that ready to dip their toe in and I wanted to help w some research!! Would love to pick some brains about it! 🥺🫶🫶🫶 - ThreadSky

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rundevinrun.bsky.social • 15 days ago

Got a tangential industry question!!

What’s the fair market rate for an illustrator to start doing novel covers?

I got a friend that ready to dip their toe in and I wanted to help w some research!! Would love to pick some brains about it! 🥺🫶🫶🫶

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seoulassassin.bsky.social•15 days ago

You could probably get a decent answer from chatgpt

rundevinrun.bsky.social•15 days ago

I can’t tell if you’re joking or not

seoulassassin.bsky.social•13 days ago

Oh I'm not. You can ask it specifics to your region in your prompts and it might be able to help that way.

rundevinrun.bsky.social•12 days ago

I’m super against anything genAI so I’d never do that.

seoulassassin.bsky.social•12 days ago

I respect you for that! I am completely off Meta for what I would imagine is for similar reasons.

jaimeugarte.bsky.social•15 days ago

At the very least $5000 with 3concepts and 3 revisions included. Trying to get royalties after a certain number of copies is sold.If they can’t get royalties, I’d amp up the price to 7k-10k. Potential of the art being the main factor the book is picked up makes the art for it expensive.

rundevinrun.bsky.social•15 days ago

Ooooh that’s super helpful tysm Jaime!!!

animatorjenna.bsky.social•12 days ago

This book is pricey but they come out with new editions every few years and have price ranges and contracts for illustrators (I posted Amazon link but you could probably get it ordered to any bookstore) Unfortunately the 2025 edition doesn't come out til Nov
https://a.co/d/ishyq9F

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