Cover Shop 101: Everything You Need to Know

We've all been there: in a nice cover shop by some high-end, mind-blowingly talented designer, and it's been three minutes since you put in a request. You wait; three hours. Three days. Three weeks...soon, even you've forgotten about it.

Or perhaps you're requesting a premade. Yet, for some reason, you're never the one to get it.

Here are some easy tips, tricks, and rules to follow to increase your chances of being noticed by a designer, as well as basic rules and a catch-all guide to requesting. Includes Do's and Do Not's, as well as good and bad examples.